Mohammad Ali Shomali (Persian: محمدعلى شمالى; born 22 December 1965) is a Muslim scholar, academic, philosopher and theologian.
He studied in the religious seminaries of Qom, and also completed a bachelors and masters degree in Western Philosophy from the University of Tehran.
[2][3] Shomali currently holds a number of posts including: He was the resident alim, and director of the Islamic Centre of England in London, from 2014 until 2019.
[1][2][3][7] Shomali has an active role in the realm of interfaith dialogue between Shiite scholars and Catholic theologians.
As such, he organised meetings together with members of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue in which Christian monks and Shia scholars came together in Rome (2011), Qom/Isfahan (2012), Assisi/Rome (2014), and Qom/Mashhad (2016).