Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib

Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib (Arabic: محب الدين الخطيب, romanized: Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb; 1886 – 30 December 1969) was a Syrian Islamic scholar of Salafism. He was the maternal uncle of Ali al-Tantawi and was the author of the pamphlet entitled al-Khutut al-Arida (The Broad Outline of the Foundations upon Which the Religion of the Imami Twelver Shiites is Based). He has been described as "one of the most influential anti-Shiite polemicists of the twentieth century".

In 1916, he was made the editor of Al Qibla, the official newspaper of Sharif Hussein.

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