Saad el-Din el-Alami | |
Office: | Grand Mufti of Jerusalem |
Term Start: | 1952 |
Term End: | 6 February 1993 |
Predecessor: | Hussam ad-Din Jarallah |
Successor: | Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri |
Birth Date: | 1911 |
Birth Place: | Jerusalem |
Death Date: | 6 February 1993 |
Nationality: | Palestinian |
Religion: | Sunni Islam |
Saad el-Din el-Alami (Arabic: سعد الدين العلمي;[1] 1911 – 6 February 1993) was a Sunni Muslim religious leader of the Palestinian people and the fourth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in office from 1952 until his death.[2] [3]
Al-Alami was born in Jerusalem in 1911, and worked as a sharia judge in Ramallah from 1948–51 and in Nablus from 1951–53. The Alamis were a notable family in the Jerusalem area generally.[4] In 1952, the Jordanian Jerusalem Islamic Waqf appointed Saad al-Alami as Mufti of Jerusalem in succession to Hussam ad-Din Jarallah.