Shaykh Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary was an Egyptian Qari. He died in 1980.

He was born in a village called Shobra al-Namla in Tanta, Egypt in 1917. Mahmoud entered the Quran School at the age of four. At 8, he had already memorized the whole Quran and at 12, he entered to the religious institute and learned the ten qiraah (recitations) at al-Azhar University.

When he was twenty-five years of age he went to Tanta and established himself as a reciter. He was the reciter at the well-known Ahmadi mosque there. Ten years later, in 1944, he moved to Cairo and entered the official radio station as a reciter where he made his first recitation on February 16, 1944. On August 7, 1948, he was nominated Mu'adhin of Sidi Hamza Mosque and then a reciter in the same mosque.

Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary was one of the most esteemed reciters of his time. A serial, “Imam Al Mujahid Barith”, starring Hassan Youssef, was dedicated to al-Husary’s life and performances.

Al-Husary's recitations are used for all Quranic recitations throughout the world.