Mohamed El Hacen Ould Dedew

محمد الحسن الددو

31 October 1963 CE · 1383 AH

Mauritanian Muslim scholar, author and poet. Born in Boutilimit on 31 October 1963 and raised in a scholarly family, he memorised the Qur'an as a boy, studied the ten readings with his mother and earned licenses in the major hadith collections. He heads the Center for the Development of Scholars and Abdallah ibn Yasin University in Nouakchott, and was vice-president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars in 2014; he founded the Centre for the Formation of Scholars in 2007, which the authorities closed in 2018, and was imprisoned repeatedly under President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.