Nasser Al-Qatami

Nasser ibn Ali Al-Qatami (born 1400 AH / 1980 CE) is a Saudi Qur'an reciter and author, imam and khatib of the Abdullah ibn Nasser Al-Muhaini Mosque in Riyadh, known across the Gulf and the Arab world. ¹²

He began leading prayer at the age of fourteen and went on to serve as imam of a succession of Riyadh mosques — among them the Al-Salam, Al-Quraini and Al-Fares mosques in Shubra, the Princess Latifa bint Sultan Mosque and the King Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in Al-Rahmaniyya, and finally the Abdullah ibn Nasser Al-Muhaini Mosque in Al-Arid. He holds a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies and pursued a master's in Qur'anic studies. ¹²

He headed the resource-development department of the Northern Ring Road centre of Riyadh's Charitable Society for Qur'an Memorisation, examined students at its memorisation centres, and supervised and taught memorisation circles for more than eleven years. Invited by the awqaf ministries of Kuwait, the Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan, he led Ramadan Tarawih prayers and made preaching tours in those countries. ¹

More than twenty audio releases of his recitation have appeared. His books include Al-Ta'at al-Ishrun li-Tadabbur al-Qur'an (The Twenty Ta's for Contemplating the Qur'an, 2017), Al-Arba'un al-Qur'aniyya (The Qur'anic Forty) and its commentary, Al-Kanz al-Thamin drawn from the contemplations of Ibn Uthaymin, and Shifa'; he also prepared an edition of Badr al-Din ibn Jama'a's Kashf al-Ma'ani fi al-Mutashabih al-Mathani, introduced by Ali al-Hudhaify. ¹²³