Yasir al-Dawsari
Yasir ibn Rashid al-Dawsari (Arabic: ياسر بن راشد الدوسري, romanized: Yāsir ibn Rāshid al-Dawsarī; born 6 August 1980) is a Saudi Islamic scholar who has served as one of the imams of Masjid al-Haram since 2019. A khatib, and qāriʾ, he previously led Taraweeh and Tahajjud prayers at Masjid al-Haram starting in the year 2015 and also served as the imam of several mosques in Riyadh since 1995.
Al-Dawsari was born in the Saudi governorate of al-Kharj, southeast of the capital Riyadh. Al-Dawsari was a student of a group of ‘ulama and sheikhs, including Abd al-Aziz Al al-Shaykh, Salih al-Fawzan, and Ibn Jibrin. He also learned qira’at with several shuyukh and qaris, including Bakri Al-Tarabisyi and Ibrahim Al-Akhdar. Near the end of 2023, his four-year contract as imam expired, and he did not lead prayers at Masjid al-Haram for about five and a half months. He has since been reappointed as an imam of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca (Makkah).
