Ali Abdulaziz Halabji (December 28, 1929 – March 17, 2007) was a Kurdish Islamic scholar from Iraqi Kurdistan and one of the founders and second leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement.

He was born on December 28, 1929, in the village of Prisi Saroo in Halabja province to a religious family.

In 1953, he became an Islamic teacher at his local Mosque alongside his brother Osman Abdulaziz.

[1][2] In 1987, after his exile, he participated in the establishment of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement and became its deputy leader and head of the military wing.

On August 8, 2003, he and his brother Mullah Omar Abdulaziz and several bodyguards were arrested by a large US force at his home in Halabja and spent several months in prison for their involvement in the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan.