Ebrahim Desai, Allah have mercy on his soul, is a South African Mufti of Indian origin. He was an Islamic Scholar and the Grand Mufti of South Africa. He was trained in a Hanafi Deobandi legal school. He ran the fatwa website Ask Imam, an online Islamic questions and answers database of Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah. Prior to that, he used to head the Dar al-Ifta of Madrasah In’aamiyyah. Furthermore, he was the senior lecturer of Hadith at Darul Uloom Nu’maniyyah in Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal and Madrasah Hameediyyah in Durban before passing away in July 2021. He was ranked among The 500 Most Influential Muslims compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.