Suleiman al-Halabi (Arabic: سليمان الحلبي; c. 1777 – 17 June 1800) was a Syrian theology student best known for assassinating Jean-Baptiste Kléber, then serving as the commander of the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, in 1800.

Born in the village of Kukan, Ottoman Syria into a family of Kurdish descent, he was sent by his father to study Islamic theology at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1797 when the French launched a concurrent invasion of Egypt.

Acquiring a twenty-inch long dagger made in Giza, al-Halabi monitored Kléber's residence in Cairo for approximately one month before making his move.

Al-Halabi stated that he was inspired by Allah to slay an "enemy of the Prophet" and claimed that the Agha of Janissaries in Gaza had arranged for him to assassinate Kléber, providing a dromedary and money for the purpose, as the Frenchman had been responsible to inflicting serious defeats against Ottoman forces.

[1] After confessing to Kléber's killing, al-Halabi, alongside the four scholars, was tried by a special court consisting entirely of French officers and convicted of murder.

The judges "deferred to local custom" and ordered al-Halabi to be executed on 17 June by having his right hand be burned to the bone before being impaled; the four scholars were beheaded instead.

French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey, who witnessed his execution, wrote that al-Halabi "did not give up his proud stance until his death".

[5] Egyptian playwright Alfred Farag wrote a 1965 play about the assassination titled Sulayman Al-Halabi, which featured Arab nationalist overtones.

[6] In 2011, the Suleiman al-Halabi Institute for Colonial Studies and Ideological Liberation was founded in the West Bank, and among its members was Basil al-Araj.