Ahmad al-Zein (Arabic: أحمد الزین; 1933–2021) was a 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 Sunni scholars, a member of The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought.