Hamid bin Ahmad Al Rifaie (Arabic: حامد بن أحمد الرفاعي) (born 1940) is a Saudi Arabian activist and thinker, president of the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue (IIFD ),[1] and co-president of the World Muslim Congress.

Al-Rifaie was born in 1940 in Busor Alharer village in the Huraan[2] region of Syria to a well-known family.

His father, Sheikh Ahmed bin Zaal Beck Al-Rifaie,[2] was an American educated tribal leader.

His grandfather, Sheikh Zaal Beck Al-Rifaie,[2] was also from the leaders and dignitaries in Huraan.

He played an important role in the national revolution against the French, and was the right-hand man of Huraan Sheikh Ismail Pasha Al-Rifaie during and after the French mandate over Syria.