Ahmed Raissouni

Sheikh Dr.
Ahmed Raïssouni
أحمد الريسوني
Raïssouni in 2018
Born
Ahmed ben Abdelsalam ben Mohamed Raïssouni

1953 (age 70–71)
Ksar el-Kebir, Morocco
NationalityMoroccan
Occupations
Children5
RelativesSoulaimane Raissouni (brother)
Hajar Raissouni (niece)
Academic background
Alma mater

Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Raïssouni (Arabic: أحمد الريسوني, born 1953) is a Moroccan Islamic scholar and jurist. He served as president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) until his retirement in 2022.[1] He was the former head of the Movement of Unity and Reform [fr] (MUR), an organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Moroccan Justice and Development Party.[2][3]

Raïssouni is one of main figures in the Moroccan Sufi Islamic reform and revivalist movement started by Allal al-Fassi.[4][5][6] Raïssouni retired from the IUMS in 2022 after stating that Mauritania's existence was "a mistake".[1][7]

  1. ^ a b "Ahmed Raissouni se retire définitivement de l'Union internationale des oulémas musulmans". TelQuel.ma (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  2. ^ Mousjid, Bilal; Hachlaf, Mohammed Hamza; Etayea, Mohamed. "Enquête: La face cachée du MUR". TelQuel (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  3. ^ DAHBI, Omar. "Le jeu caché du MUR et du PJD". Aujourd'hui le Maroc (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  4. ^ Salih, Hamza (2021-09-30). "Allal Al-Fassi's Utopia: Liberalism and Democracy within the Revivalist System of Thought". International Journal of Language and Literary Studies. 2 (3): 202–215. doi:10.36892/ijlls.v2i3.705. ISSN 2704-7156. S2CID 244230236.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Belal, Youssef (2006-09-01). "Mystique et politique chez Abdessalam Yassine et ses adeptes". Archives de sciences sociales des religions (in French) (135): 165–184. doi:10.4000/assr.3790. ISSN 0335-5985.
  7. ^ "Ahmed Raissouni resigns from International Union of Muslim Scholars". HESPRESS English. 2022-08-28. Retrieved 2022-09-06.