Ahmad al-Zein () was a notable Sunni Muslim scholar who was also known as "Shaykh of the Levant". He was the head of the Union of Muslim Ulama of Lebanon.

Early life

He was born in 1933 in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon. Ahmad al-Zein was a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Egypt and was the religious judge of the Lebanese Sharia courts for 35 years and the Friday Imam of the Omri Kabir Mosque in Sidon. He was one of Lebanon's leading Sunni scholars, a member of The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought.

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Death

He died on March 2, 2021, at the age of 88.

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References

1933 births

2021 deaths

People from Sidon

Al-Azhar University alumni

Islam and politics

Islamism

Islamic philosophers

Muslim reformers

20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam

Ahmad al-Zein