Ahmed Raissouni

أحمد الريسوني

1953 CE · 1372 AH

Moroccan Muslim scholar and jurist, born in 1953 in the village of Ouled Soltane near Ksar el-Kebir. He studied Sharia at the University of al-Qarawiyyin and then usul al-fiqh and the higher objectives of the law at Mohammed V University, where he taught; he founded the Islamic Future Association and headed the Movement of Unity and Reform (1996–2003), and was a founding member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, presiding over it from 2018 until his resignation in 2022 after his remarks on Mauritania's existence. He is known for his book on Imam al-Shatibi's theory of the higher objectives of Islamic law.