Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi (full Arabic name: Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Anṣārī al-Dimashqī, شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي), c. 1256–1327, was a Syrian scholar and theologian of Islam.^[1]

He was born near Damascus and remained in his hometown until his death.^[1] He worked on several subjects and served as an Imam at al-Rabwa.^[1] Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi was given the titles Shaykh al-Rabwa and Shams al-Din.^[1] He likely had a son named Abd Allah, hence his kunya Abu Abd Allah.^[1]

Al-Dimashqi wrote an extended defence of Islam in response to the Letter from the People of Cyprus, itself a reworking of an earlier Letter to a Muslim Friend by the Christian bishop Paul of Antioch.^[1]