Kavazović (born 3 July 1964) is a Bosnian Islamic cleric serving as Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina since November 2012.

Son of Hasan and Saima Kavazović,[1] Husein attended primary schools in Gradačac and then enrolled at the Gazi Husrev Bey's Madrasa in Sarajevo, where he graduated in 1983.

He left Yugoslavia to study Islamic law from 1985 to 1990 at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then came back to defend his master's thesis at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Sarajevo, in the field of Sharia law.

[2][3] Kavazović then worked as imam, khatib and muallim (lecturer) at the Islamic congregations of Srebrenik and Gradačac, before serving as mufti of Tuzla from 1993 to 2012.

In the early 1990s, he was also elected member of the Council of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.