Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti

Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Būti
مُحَمَّد سَعِيد رَمَضَان ٱلْبُوطِي
Mohammed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti in 2013
TitleShaykh, Allama, Great Islamic Scholar of Levant, Shaheed Al-Mihrab
Personal life
Born1929
Died21 March 2013(2013-03-21) (aged 83–84)
Resting placeUmayyad Mosque, Damascus
EraModern
RegionSyria
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari
MovementIslamic neo-traditionalism
Muslim leader
Influenced

Muhammad Said Ramadan Al-Bouti (Arabic: مُحَمَّد سَعِيد رَمَضَان ٱلْبُوطِي, romanized: Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī) (1929 – 21 March 2013) was a renowned Syrian Sunni Muslim scholar and author. He was served as professor and vice dean at the Damascus University, also serving as the imam of the Umayyad Mosque.

Al-Bouti wrote more than sixty books on Islamic law and theology. He was a leading figure of Islamic neo-traditionalism which adhered to the four schools of thought in Sunni Islam and the orthodox Ash'arite creed. His works have been highly regarded to be a pivotal defense of Sunni Islam against opposing ideologies such as Secularism, Marxism, and Nationalism along with reformist movements of Wahhabism and Islamic Modernism.

On 21 March 2013, al-Bouti was assassinated at the Al-Iman Mosque in Damascus. The circumstances around the event are still unclear.