Saad el-Din el-Alami ( ar, سعد الدين العلمي ; 1911–6 February 1993) was a

Sunni Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...

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religious leader of the Palestinian people and the fourth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in office from 1952 until his death. Al-Alami was born in Jerusalem in 1911, and worked as a

sharia Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the H ...

judge in

Ramallah Ramallah ( , ; ar, رام الله, , God's Height) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank that serves as the ''de facto'' administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusale ...

from 1948–51 and in

Nablus Nablus ( ; ar, نابلس, Nābulus ; he, שכם, Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: ; Samaritan Hebrew: , romanized: ; el, Νεάπολις, Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a populati ...

from 1951–53. In 1952, the Jordanian Jerusalem Islamic Waqf appointed Saad al-Alami as Mufti of Jerusalem in succession to

Hussam ad-Din Jarallah Hussam al-Din Jarallah ( ar, حسام الدين جار الله; 1884 – 6 March 1954) was a Sunni Muslim leader of the Palestinian people during the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine and was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 19 ...

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Palestinian Personalities: Al-Alami, Sa‘ad Eddin
1911 births 1993 deaths Al-Azhar University alumni Grand Muftis of Jerusalem Palestinian Sunni Muslims Mandatory Palestine expatriates in Egypt {{palestine-bio-stub