Real name: عبد الحميد كشك (ʾAbd al-Ḥamid Kišk)

Abd al-Hamid Kishk (1933 - 1996) was a blind Egyptian preacher, scholar of Islam, activist, and author. He is known for his humour, popular sermons, and for his outspoken stance against music, restrictions on polygamy, and injustice and oppression in the Muslim world.

The peak of his fame was in the late 70ies / early 80ies when his friday sermons would be attended by crowds of 10000. He was a vocal critic of the Egyptian government. and was arrrested several times (1965 and 1981). He was boycotted by the official media under the Anwar Sadat regime (1970–1981), but cassette tapes of his sermons were widely distributed all over Egypt and the Arab world.

He was released by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1982 under the condition that he end his career as a public activist, but his cassette tapes continued to be widely available thereafter.