Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia.

As a young man, Mateen was originally a percussionist, and he started playing flute as a teenager.

He started out playing rhythm and blues in the early 1970s which led him to the tenor saxophone chair of the Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.

He has performed or recorded with musicians including Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Alan Silva, Butch and Wilber Morris, Raphe Malik, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Jr., Matthew Shipp, Marc Edwards, Jemeel Moondoc, William Hooker, Henry Grimes, Rashid Bakr, and Hamid Drake.

[2] With Hamid Drake With Marc Edwards With William Hooker With Raphe Malik With William Parker With Samo Salamon With Matthew Shipp With Alan Silva With Steve Swell With Earth People