Husayn Muruwwa (also spelt Hussein Mroue or Mroueh; Arabic: حسين مروة) (c. 1909 – 17 February 1987) was a Lebanese Marxist philosopher, journalist, author, and literary critic.

His father, Ali Muruwwa, was a sheikh, a prominent religious scholar, and a well-respected man in his community who received his education in Najaf (modern-day Iraq).

After that, he headed to Badkoobeh School where he met up with 2 of his fellow students from Bint Jbeil and stayed with Sheykh Muhammad Al Kanji whom Muruwwa described as having changed the course of his entire life.

One of these changes was a sudden realization that he was unwillingly thrown into a series of conflicts he wasn't prepared for; the other was his participation in a weekly book auction which led him to purchase a collection of works and poems (Arabic: ديوان) belonging to 19th-century Iraqi poet Ibrahim Al Tabtaba'ee.

Also around this time, Muruwwa was acquainted with many ideas that conflicted with his teachings such as Marxism, atheism, and Darwinism introduced to him by authors such as Taha Husayn and Shibli al-Shumayyil.

On top of that, during this period he also expressed public support for the controversial al-Shabiba al-‘Amiliyya al-Najafiyya (the Najafi-‘Amili Youth), which even further alienated him from his peers.

He started teaching in several schools, first in Baghdad and Damascus, then back in Lebanon where he married his wife Fatima Bazzi in 1929, but after due consideration and persuasion from his peers in addition to receiving financial support from family in Argentina, he decided to commence his studies in 1934 and after 4 gruelling years, he completed his education in 1938, officially becoming a mujtahid.

During this time he read Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism and taught in a Jewish high school where one student described Muruwwa as a "progressive gentleman who showed no ethnic discrimination" who was "a nationalist who hated the British influence in Iraq".

For 7 years Muruwwa wrote regularly for both Al-Hauat and Al-Thaqafah al-Wataniyyah until 1957, when he quit his job at Al-Hayat after the assassination of Nasib Al Matni.

[2] In 1968 he would visit Moscow again, but this time he would begin work on his doctoral thesis, an accumulation of decades worth of knowledge, a historical materialist interpretation of Arabic-Islamic heritage.

She reluctantly told them he was ill in bed and led them to his room where one of the men sat him up, put a silenced pistol to his head, and shot; Muruwwa died instantly.