| Religion: | Islam |
| Abdul Aziz al-Harbi | |
| Birth Place: | Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Nationality: | Saudi Arabian |
| Ethnicity: | Arab |
| Occupation: | Scholar |
| Denomination: | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence: | Zahiri |
| Creed: | Independent Literalist theologian |
| Main Interests: | Tafsir, Arabic language |
| Alma Mater: | Islamic University of Madinah, Umm al-Qura University |
Abdul Aziz bin Ali al-Harbi is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and associate professor at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca. He is one of the founders and the current president of the Arabic Language Academy in Mecca.[1]
A native of Mecca, Harbi memorized the entirety of the Qur'an by the age of eleven.[2]
Harbi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exegesis of the Qur'an, known to Muslims as Tafsir, from Islamic University of Madinah in 1989. Nine years later, he completed a Master of Arts degree in the Muslim prophetic tradition, known as the Sunnah, at Umm al-Qura University, where he would eventually complete his Doctorate of Philosophy in Qur'anic exegesis in 2001.[2] He was promoted to the rank of associate professor at Umm al-Qura in 2006, and currently teaches exegesis. He is also a member of the university's academic board.[1]
Harbi also has an Ijazah authorization in all ten Qira'at, or variant methods of reciting the Qur'an, with a complete chain of narration going back to the original reciters of the Qur'an.[2] The majority of his published works, however, have been within the field of the Arabic language, especially in regard to Arabic rhetoric.