Mahmoud Akkam (born in 1952 in Aleppo) is a Syrian religious figure. The Mufti of Aleppo and a lecturer in the Faculties of Law and Education at the University of Aleppo; He is the preacher of the Great Umayyad Mosque, as well as a member of the Arab Writers Union. He holds a BA in Islamic Sharia from Damascus University, a MA from the Sorbonne University in Paris and a PhD in Islamic political thought from the Sorbonne as well, and his thesis was supervised by Professor Muhammad Arkoun.