Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti
| Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti محمد سعيد رمضان البوطي |
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| Title | Shaykh, Allama, Great Islamic Scholar of Levant, Shaheed Al-Mihrab, Grand Mufti |
| Born | 1929 Ayn Dewar, State of Syria |
| Died | March 21, 2013 (aged 83–84) Damascus, Syria |
| Ethnicity | Arab, Kurdish |
| Era | Modern |
| Region | Syria |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
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| Awards | Dubai International Holy Quran Award, 2004 |
Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti (Arabic: محمد سعيد رمضان البوطي) was a notable Sunni Muslim scholar who was also known as "Shaykh of the Levant". He was killed on 21 March 2013, during the Syrian civil war, reportedly in a bomb explosion, though "many questions about the death" have been raised by videos of the scene.
Called a "prolific writer whose sermons were regularly broadcast on television", and "more familiar to Syrian TV viewers than anybody other than President Bashar al-Assad", Al-Bouti authored more than sixty books on various Islamic issues, and was considered an important scholar of the approach based on the four schools of Sunni Islam and the orthodox Ash'arite creed. Other than his religious works, he also has worked in literature. For instance, he translated Mam and Zin, the famous Kurdish story, to Arabic.
Al-Bouti was born on the Boutan Island in 1929 in the village of Ayn Diwar in Syria near Turkey, when his cleric father Mulla Ramadan "fled Kemalist repression and sought refuge in Damascus". al-Bouti came from a Kurdish tribe that resided in many regions across Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
The family immigrated to Damascus when Al-Bouti was four years old. Al-Bouti was soon enrolled in religious education in Damascus. At the age of eleven, Bouti studied the Qur'an and Muhammad's biography with Shaykh Hasan Habannakah and Shaykh al-Maradlnl in the Jami' Manjak Mosque in al-Midan. Later when the mosque was transformed into the Institute of Islamic Orientation (ma'had al-tauyTh al-islami), he studied Qur'an exegesis (tafsir), logic, rhetoric and the fundamental principles of Islamic law (usul al-fiqh) until 1953.
In 1954 he traveled to Cairo to complete his undergraduate studies at Al-Azhar, at the Faculty of Sharia.
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