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Xadir Diaye (born Xadir Aboubacar N'Diaye) (born May 19, 1935 in Ziguinchor, Senegal) is a Senegalese-American imam and scholar of Quranic hermeneutics. He is the imam of Jehaan Mosque in New York City. Dr. Diaye is renowned for his flat rejection of the principle of jihad warfare, and for his dedication to countering Islamic extremism and supremacism.
Diaye received religious education among the Mouridiyya in Senegal, and later in traditional Sunni madrassas in Thailand and Malaysia, between the years of 1947 and 1960. For many years an adherent of the Shafi'i Sunni madhab, Dr. Diaye changed his approach in 1981, 21 years after certification of his credentials. He rejected the rulings of the Reliance of the Traveller and its associated manuals of fiqh, and began to call for a new age of pluralism in Islam.

Diaye and the Shari'a
Dr. Diaye has been supportive of liberal movements within Islam. He has called for greater acceptance of LGBTQ Muslims. Although himself a devout Sunni, he is also a proud supporter of the Ahmadiyya movement. He has issued fatwas against the exclusion and hatred of the Ahmadiyya and Ismaili Muslim communities, and called these incitements to hatred and fitna.

Involvement in Middle East issues
Dr. Diaye has supported the position that music is halal in Islam. He has composed Wolof-language nasheeds on the saxophone.