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American Islamic scholar and preacher
Born in Texas to Pakistani Muhajir parents, Qadhi studied chemical engineering at the University of Houston, before studying hadith and Islamic theology at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. Qadhi has written books and lectured widely on Islam and contemporary Muslim issues, and is considered one of the most influential Muslim scholars in the United States.

Qadhi was born in Houston, Texas to Pakistani, Muhajir parents. His father, a doctor by profession, founded the first mosque in the area, while his mother is a microbiologist, both from Karachi in Pakistan and whose ancestral homeland is Uttar Pradesh in India. He returned to the United States, where he earned a B. Sc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston. Qadhi returned to the United States after working and studying for nine years in Saudi Arabia. a seminar based Islamic education institution founded in 2001. The instructors travel to teach Islamic studies in English. He moved to the Dallas metropolitan area in early 2019, becoming the resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center. He is the Dean of Academic Affairs at The Islamic Seminary of America. Qadhi was a guest on an episode of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's television genealogy series Finding Your Roots on PBS.

Qadhi has presented papers on jihad movements. In 2006, at a conference at Harvard Law School, Qadhi presented a 15 minute analysis of the theological underpinnings of an early militant movement in modern Saudi Arabia headed by Juhayman al Otaibi. The movement had gained international attention when it held the Grand Mosque of Mecca hostage in 1979. In September 2009, he presented a paper at an international conference at the University of Edinburgh on understanding jihad in the modern world. He said the specific legal ruling (fatwā) of the 13–14th century theologian Ibn Taymiyya on the Mongol Empire has been wrongfully used in the 20th and 21st centuries by both jihadist and pacifist groups to justify their positions. The paper has been critiqued by some Salafi commentators, who say that they in fact did not revise the definition of Jihad. Qadhi was previously affiliated with the Salafi movement but has since left the movement and now only identifies himself as belonging to the Post Salafist movement.

Qadhi believes that the practice of some Sufi Muslims visiting the graves of Sufi saints and calling upon Muhammad and calling upon them for help or guidance is not shirk (polytheism) but said it is haram, sinful, an evil innovation, and called it a stepping stone and gateway to shirk but not shirk in and of itself. Qadhi has also stated that these Muslims should still be regarded as Muslims, though misguided. He believes that questioning whether veneration of Sufi saints at gravesites can be called shirk is highly problematic because that would mean accusing many Muslim scholars who hold affirmative views towards it of committing shirk and being out of the fold of Islam.

Yasir Qadhi has criticized progressive Muslims who interpret Islamic law as supporting homosexual relations, saying these teachings contain "very little Islam". In regards to religious liberties, Qadhi believes that Islamic teachings don't support or require that Muslim business owners discriminate or refuse service to LGBTQ individuals. Nonetheless, Qadhi expresses concern that Islamic institutions may face issues if they speak in a vulgar manner and employ or fire employees that don't conform to conservative beliefs regarding sexual behaviors.

Some of his statements have been controversial, including comments in a speech in 2001 questioning Hitler's motives in the Holocaust. He later stated that he regretted those comments and visited the Auschwitz concentration camp with a delegation of Muslim leaders. The following year The New York Times reported he said that most Islamic studies professors in the United States are Jews who "want to destroy us." More generally, he said that he "fell down a slippery slope", expressing anger at actions of the Israeli government in the form of anti Semitic remarks he later recognized as wrong. The Times newspaper reported that British Charity Commission regulators contacted three Islamic charities about Qadhi's 2015 tour, where he allegedly made controversial comments and told students that "killing homosexuals and stoning adulterers was part of their religion." He also clarified to them that these punishments were only applicable in an Islamic society and were not to be applied in the West.

+Books authored or co authoredTitleDescriptionRiyaa: Hidden Shirk Dar al Fatah, 1996An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qura̓anAl Hidaayah Pub., 1999, An Explanation of the Four Principles of ShirkMuḥammad ibn ʻAbd al Wahhāb, Al Hidaayah, 2000, Du'a : The Weapon of the BelieverAl Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution, 2001, 15 Ways to Increase Your Earnings from the Quran and SunnahAl Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution, 2002, An explanation of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab's Kashf al ShubuhatA critical analysis of shirk, with Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al Wahhāb, Al Hidaayah, 2003, Maqalat al Jahm b. Safwan wa atharuha fıl firaq al IslamiyyaThe Doctrines of Jahm b. Safwan and Its Effects on Islamic Sects,
2 vols. Riyad: Adwa al salaf, 2005. Like a Garment: Intimacy in IslamIndependently published (March 4, 2019), Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)Independently published (May 7, 2019), (length: 776 pages) Lessons from Surah al Kahf (Pearls from the Qur'an)Kube Publishing Ltd. (March 10, 2020), Lessons from Surah Yusuf (Pearls from the Qur'an)Kube Publishing Ltd. (November 3, 2020), Reflections: Personal Insights From Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi Al Buruj Press (February 17, 2021), The Miracle of the Qur'anTertib Publishing (March 1, 2021)The Power of RepentanceTertib Publishing (March 9, 2021)The Parables of the Qur'anKube Publishing Ltd. (March 12, 2022), The Sīrah of the Prophet: A Contemporary and Original AnalysisKube Publishing Ltd. (June 15, 2023),

Reconciling Reason and Revelation in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728/1328): An Analytical Study of Ibn Taymiyyah’s Dar' at ta’aarod, PhD Dissertation, 2013, Yale University. "The Unleashed Thunderbolts' Of Ibn Qayyim Al Ǧawziyyah: An Introductory Essay", Oriente Moderno vol. 90, no. 1, 2010, pp. 135–149. "A Christian Islamist? ", Political Theology, vol. 14, issue 6, 2013, pp. 803–812. "Salafı Ash'arı Polemics of the 3rd & 4th Islamic Centuries," The Muslim World, 2016.