Sayed Ammar Nakshawani (Arabic: عمار النقشواني; born 1981) is a British Shia islamic scholar, author and orator.

[3] He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Middle East Institute.

He previously held the Imam Ali Chair for Shi'i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools at Hartford Seminary.

Of Azerbaijani origin, Nakshwani was born to Emad Nakshawani, the son of Murtadha Nakshawani (died 1990), who served as a representative of grand Iranian Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei in Kufa.

[6] Nakshawani serves as the Special Representative to the United Nations for the Universal Muslim Association of America (UMAA).