Ebrahim Desai is an Indian South African Mufti and Islamic scholar. He is a of South Africa and was trained in a Hanafi Deobandi legal school. He runs the fatwa website Ask Imam, an online Islamic questions and answers database of Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah. Previously, he used to head the Dar al-Ifta of Madrasah In'aamiyyah. He is currently the senior lecturer of Hadith at Darul Uloom Nu'maniyyah in Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal and Madrasah Hameediyyah in Durban. He has been ranked among The 500 Most Influential Muslims compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.