Religion: | Islam |
Era: | Modern |
Ahmad al-Zein Arabic: احمد الزین | |
Shaykh | |
Birth Place: | Sidon, Lebanon |
Birth Date: | 1933 |
Death Date: | 2 March 2021[1] |
Region: | Lebanon |
Denomination: | Sunni |
Movement: | Union of Muslim Ulama |
Influenced: | Musa al-Sadr[2] |
Ahmad al-Zein (Arabic: احمد الزین) 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.[3]
He was born in 1933 in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon.[4] 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.[5] He was one of Lebanon's leading Sunni scholars, a member of The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought.[6]
He died on March 2, 2021, at the age of 88.[7]