Yasser Al-Dosari

Yasir ibn Rashid al-Dawsari is a Saudi Quran reciter and scholar, and an imam and khatib of Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, born in al-Kharj governorate on 6 August 1980, corresponding to 24 Ramadan 1400 AH. He memorised the Quran by the age of fifteen, served as imam of Riyadh mosques from 1995, was appointed a participating Taraweeh and Tahajjud imam at Masjid al-Haram in 2015, then a permanent imam in 2019 and a khatib in 2022. He is an associate professor of comparative fiqh at Umm Al-Qura University and the author of more than thirty-three books and studies. ^{1 2}

Al-Dawsari was born in al-Kharj governorate, some 80 kilometres south of Riyadh; he is married with two sons and four daughters. He began memorising the Quran at the age of six, encouraged by his father and followed up by his mother, joined memorisation circles in Riyadh after his family moved there, completed his memorisation at fifteen in 1995, and repeated memorisation and revision through secondary school until eighteen. ²

He studied under a group of scholars including Abd al-Aziz Al al-Shaykh, Salih al-Fawzan and Ibn Jibrin, and learned qira'at from reciters including Bakri al-Tarabichi, Ibrahim al-Akhdar and Muhammad Tamim al-Zu'bi. ^{1 2}

He first joined King Abdulaziz Military College in 1999, left after a year for the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, and took his bachelor's degree in fiqh in 2002, then a master's in comparative fiqh from the Higher Institute of Judiciary in 2008 and a doctorate in comparative fiqh from the same institute in 2013. On 6 June 2022 he obtained the qualification for a professorship in fiqh from Umm Al-Qura University. ²

He began leading prayers at sixteen in 1995, serving two years as imam of Abdullah al-Khalifi Mosque in al-Faruq district, with his first Quran recording issued the same year, then moved between Riyadh mosques: al-Kawthar Mosque (2000), Imam Abdullah ibn Saud Mosque (2002), Sheikh Abdulaziz ibn Baz Mosque (2004), and then al-Dakhil Mosque in Granada district in 2005, where he remained fifteen years and his worldwide fame began, supervising the mosque's activities and its women's Quran school. His Quran audio releases number about forty-nine. ²

In parallel he held academic and administrative posts, including teaching at the College of Education at King Saud University, the secretary-generalship of the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Charitable Society for Quran Memorisation in the Air Defense, and membership of the advisory body of the General Presidency of Haramain since August 2020; he is currently an associate professor in the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Umm Al-Qura University and an adviser to its president. ²

On 29 Sha'ban 1436 AH (15 June 2015), King Salman issued an order for al-Dawsari to lead the Taraweeh and Tahajjud prayers at Masjid al-Haram during Ramadan, and he continued as a participating imam for five years. On 13 Safar 1441 AH (12 October 2019) a royal order appointed him a permanent imam of Masjid al-Haram; his first prayers there as permanent imam were Maghrib and Isha the following day, and he is believed to be the youngest imam appointed at the Grand Mosque. In December 2022 he was also appointed a khatib of Masjid al-Haram with King Salman's approval. ^{1 2}

After completing his first four-year contract he was excused from the post in October 2023 and did not lead prayers at Masjid al-Haram for about five and a half months; many called for his return, with an online survey reported by the English article showing 94% of respondents wishing to see him reinstated. On 26 Sha'ban 1445 AH (7 March 2024) his reappointment as an imam of Masjid al-Haram was announced, starting from Ramadan 1445 AH. ¹

Al-Dawsari has more than thirty-three authored works, studies and papers in Quranic sciences, comparative fiqh and sales law, including his master's thesis "Al-Dawabit al-Fiqhiyya fi al-Sabq wa'l-Ja'ala" and his doctoral thesis "Al-Furuq al-Fiqhiyya 'inda al-Hanafiyya fi al-Buyu'", and he has taken part in scholarly conferences and chaired Quran and scholarly competition committees inside and outside Saudi Arabia. ²

His official YouTube channel, @Yasseraldosry, whose About page names it as the official channel of Yasser ibn Rashid Al-Dosari, imam and khatib of Masjid al-Haram, publishes his recitations and lessons; the founder's channel harvest recorded 2,610,000 subscribers for it in October 2026, a dated platform figure. ³

• English Wikipedia, "Yasir al-Dawsari", revision of 18 October 2026.
• Arabic Wikipedia, «ياسر الدوسري», revision of 14 October 2026.
• Wikidata item Q12251502.
• His official YouTube channel (@Yasseraldosry).