Saad el-Din el-Alami ( ar, سعد الدين العلمي ; 1911–6 February 1993) was a Sunni Muslim religious leader of the

Palestinian people Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

and the fourth

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Islamic holy places, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The position was created by the British military government led by Ronald Storrs in 1918.See Islamic Leadershi ...

, in office from 1952 until his death. 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. In 1952, the Jordanian

Jerusalem Islamic Waqf The Department of the Jerusalem Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs, together with its board the Islamic Awqaf Council, is the Jordanian-appointed organization responsible for controlling and managing the current Islamic edifices on the Temple Moun ...

appointed Saad al-Alami as Mufti of Jerusalem in succession to Hussam ad-Din Jarallah.

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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