Abd Allah Siraj Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: آل سراج / الطائف الشيخ عبد الله سراج. www.almadenahnews.com. 10 October 2009.
  2. Web site: وجوه حجازية - مجلة الحجاز. al-Hejaz.
  3. Web site: Financial Ministers. mof.gov.jo.
  4. Web site: Abū Sulaymān. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb. الإفتاء في مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة ما قبل الحكم السعودي. The office of ifta in Mecca and Medina before Saudi rule. alhejaz.org.
  5. Book: Wahīm. Ṭālīb Muḥammad. مملكة الحجاز 1916-1925 : دراسة في الاوضاع السياسية / Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz (1916-1925): dirāsah fī al-awḍāʻ al-sīyāsīyah. Kingdom of Hejaz (1916-1925): A study in the political situation. 1990. Markaz Dirāsāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī bī-Jāmiʻat al-Baṣrah. al-Baṣrah [Basra, Iraq]. 1st.
  6. News: Sabbagh. Mahmoud Abdul-Ghani. Modernity in Makkah: History at a glance. Arab News. 4 March 2010.
  7. al-‘Ajrash . Ḥaydar Ḥātim Fāliḥ . 6 May 2011 . الملك علي بن الشريف حسين / al-Malik 'Alī ibn ash-Sharīf Ḥusayn . University of Babylon Repository of Open Access Papers.
  8. Rida. Muhammad Rashid. Rashid Rida. الحالة السياسية في الحجاز في أواخر سنة 1334. The political situation in the Hejaz at the end of the year 1334 AH. Al-Manār. 11 February 1918. 20. 6. 278–279.
  9. Web site: آل سراج / Āl Sirāj . alhejaz.org.
  10. News: ash-Shubaylī. ‘Abd ar-Raḥman. مجلس الوكلاء في مكة المكرمة نواة السلطة التنفيذية (مجلس الوزراء) في عهد الملك عبدالعزيز. The Council of Ministers in Mecca, nucleus of the executive branch, in the time of King Abd al-Aziz. Al-Jazirah. 29 September 2011. Translation: News: The nucleus of the executive branch. Arab News. 18 November 2011.
  11. Book: Maghribī. Muḥammad ‘Alī. أعلام الحجاز في القرن الرابع عشر للهجرة / A'lām al-Ḥijāz fi qarn ar-rābi' 'ashr lil-hijrah. Luminaries of the Hejaz in the 14th century AH. عبد الله عبد الرحمن سراج / ‘Abd Allāh ‘Abd ar-Raḥman Sirāj. 1990. Maṭba‘at al-Madanī. al-Qāhirah [Cairo]. 375–393. 1st. 3.
  12. PRO. FO 195/2286. Monahan to Lowther. Jidda, 15 December 1908. "He is Mufti at Mecca of the Hanafi sect, as his father was before him. His family is of Indian origin but has been residing in Mecca for more than 200 years. His father died in exile in Egypt about 12 years ago, having incurred the displeasure of Grand Sharif Aun ar-Rafik, which would be a fact in his favor, and he himself (he is now about 35) was living in Constantinople in fear of the Grand Sharif for more than ten years until he returned two years ago to Mecca. He appears to have a good reputation, intellectually, and morally, and knows Turkish well…" Quoted in Book: Kayalı. Hasan. Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918. 1997. University of California Press. Berkeley. A Case Study in Centralization: The Hijaz under Young Turk Rule, 1908–1914.