Hassan El Kettani

الحسن الكتاني

16 August 1972 CE · 1392 AH

Moroccan Muslim scholar and jurist, born at Salé on 16 August 1972 into the scholarly Kettani family. He studied under Muhammad Abu Khubza, Abdullah and Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari and others, and took a master's in fiqh and its principles at Al al-Bayt University and a doctorate in usul al-fiqh. Arrested in February 2003, he was sentenced to twenty years in the Casablanca bombings case, denied the charges, and was released by royal pardon on 5 February 2012; since then he has denounced extremism. He has written many works and recorded commentaries in fiqh and hadith.