Muhammad Nimr al-Khatib (1918 – 15 November 2010) was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and a pro-Husayni head of the Arab Higher Committee in Haifa during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. He founded an Islamic society called Jam‘iyyat al-I‘tisam in 1941. Khatib's family held the mufti-ship of Haifa during Ottoman rule. Khatib was the author of a notable account of the 1948 War entitled The Events of the Disaster (Min Athar al-Nakba).