Ahmed Zahir Ali

Ahmed Zahir Ali is a Maldivian politician who served as Minister of Islamic Affairs of the Maldives from 2018 to 2023. He was a director of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs when he was appointed as a minister.
Ahmed Zahir Ali obtained his bachelor's degree in 1997 in Fundamentals of Religion from the Islamic University of Madinah. He then obtained his master's degree in Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences from the International Islamic University Malaysia and his Doctor of Philosophy in Political science from the same university. He also studied at Jamia Darussalam in Oomerabad, India.