Saad al-Alami

Saad al-Alami (Arabic: سعد الدين العلمي ‎‎, 1911–1993) was a Sunni Muslim religious leader of the Palestinian people and the fourth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He became Grand Mufti in 1952 until his death in 1993.

Al-Alami was born in Jerusalem in 1911, and worked as a Shari‘a Judge in Ramallah from 1948–51 and in Nablus from 1951-53.

On the death of his predecessor Jarallah in 1952, the Jordanian Waqf appointed Saad al-Alami as his replacement.^[1]^[2]

References

Islamic Leadership in Jerusalem

Medieval	al-Masri (?–1440)

Hanafi Muftis	M. T. al-Husayni (1860s–1908) K. al-Husayni (1908–1921)¹

Grand Muftis	A. al-Husseini (1921–1937) Jarallah (1948–1954) al-Alami (1952–1993) Ja'abari (1993–1994) Sabri (1994–2006) Hussein (2006–present)

¹ From 1914–1918, the Ottoman Empire claimed As'ad Shukeiri as Qadi.

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