Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr (1928 – 1978) was a persian-born Lebanese scholar and political leader who founded the Amal Movement.He belongs to the Sadr family from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, a branch of the Musawi family tracing to Musa Ibn Jaafar, the seventh Shia Imam and ultimately to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima.