Omar al-Qazabri

Omar al-Qazabri (born 4 August 1974) is a Moroccan reciter and imam, imam of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca since Ramadan 2005 and preacher at the city's al-Nasim mosque. ^{1 2}

He learned the Qur'an as a boy from his father, Ahmad al-Qazabri, a scholar of Marrakesh, completing it at eleven; in an interview with Iqraa TV he says his father left the greatest mark on his life. He took his secondary certificate in traditional education at the Ibn Yusuf school in Marrakesh. ¹

After his father's death he went to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of Abd al-Rahman Nasif, owner of one of the largest private libraries in Jeddah, who had heard him recite in Casablanca and hosted him for five years. He attended classes at the Islamic Institute in Mecca in 1997, led the dawn prayer at the al-Mi'mar mosque in Jeddah and taught tajwid, the readings and tafsir, led the evening prayers and tarawih at the al-Jami'a mosque, and read with teachers including Mahmud Isma'il of al-Azhar and the Mauritanian Shaykh al-Fah. ¹

On his return he preached and led prayers at the Bab al-Rayyan mosque in Casablanca's Ulfa district, where worshippers filled the mosque and the surrounding streets. After the Casablanca bombings of 16 May 2003 he was asked to stop leading prayers there, and the following year he was invited to lead prayers at the Ibn Baz mosque in Mecca. ¹

About three months after his marriage a representative of Morocco's Ministry of Awqaf told him he had been chosen as imam of the Hassan II Mosque, and he began there in Ramadan 2005. He also completed the ten readings in Cairo with Ahmad Isa al-Ma'sarawi, head of Egypt's Quran recitation authority. ¹

With the Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans Abroad he travelled to Germany to open a mosque at Offenbach near Frankfurt, and then spent some twenty days in France, opening a conference on the Prophet and giving a lecture titled 'His character was the Qur'an'. ¹

Wikidata listed articles on him in two Wikipedia editions (Arabic and Urdu) on 6 November 2026. ²

• Arabic Wikipedia article, revision of 5 November 2026. ¹

• Wikidata item Q12228390. ²