Massoud Vahedi is an academic and researcher based in Canada. He holds a BA in political science from the University of Toronto and an MA in political science from York University. As a student of the Islamic sciences, his primary areas of interest are the hadith sciences and Hanbali law, in both of which he has a number of ijฤzฤt. He has published journal articles on various topics of hadith and law, including an assessment of the contributions of Salafi scholars in the science of hadith.