Abd Allah Siraj | |
Native Name: | عبد الله سراج |
Native Name Lang: | Arabic |
Office: | 5th Prime Minister of Transjordan |
Term Start: | 22 February 1931 |
Term End: | 18 October 1933 |
Successor: | Ibrahim Hashem |
Predecessor: | Hasan Khalid Abu al-Huda |
Office3: | Prime Minister of Hejaz |
Term Start3: | October 1924 |
Term End3: | November 1925 |
Predecessor3: | Ali |
Successor3: | Muhammad at-Tawil |
Monarch3: | Ali |
Office4: | Deputy Prime Minister of Hejaz |
Term Start4: | October 1916 |
Term End4: | October 1924 |
Primeminister4: | Ali |
Monarch4: | Husayn |
Office6: | Hanafi Mufti of Mecca |
Term End6: | October 1924 |
Appointer6: | Ali Abd Allah Pasha |
Predecessor6: | Abd Allah ibn Abbas |
Birth Date: | c. 1876 or c. 1879 |
Birth Place: | Mecca, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Death Date: | c. May 1949 |
Death Place: | Kingdom of Jordan |
Alma Mater: | Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah al-Azhar University |
Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥman Sirāj (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن سراج; 1876 – May 1949)[1] [2] was an Arab politician and Islamic scholar who held various posts in the Kingdom of Hejaz and later the Emirate of Transjordan, including the office of Prime Minister of both countries (including being the 5th Prime Minister of Jordan). Born in Mecca, he graduated from Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah and later al-Azhar University in Cairo. In 1907 he was appointed Mufti of the Hanafis in Mecca by Sharif Ali Abd Allah. He was elected to represent Mecca in the Ottoman parliament in 1908, though he resigned before he ever served. After Sharif Husayn declared independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1916, he appointed Siraj as Chief Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of the Hejaz government. Siraj served as acting Prime Minister in lieu of Emir Ali until 1918. After Husayn abdicated the throne in 1924, Siraj held the office of Prime Minister during most of Ali's short reign, which ended with the Kingdom's surrender to the Saudi Sultanate of Nejd in 1925. He then migrated to the Jordan, where under Emir Abd Allah he served as Prime Minister from 1931 to 1933 while simultaneously holding the portfolios of Finance[3] and the Interior Ministry, as well as the office of Chief Justice.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]