Birth: 1/1/1892 Death:1/1/1977
Born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 1892; received a certificate in Law from the Palestinian Law School in Jerusalem; specialized in Judiciary and Administration; occupied several positions in the Ottoman government, incl. the Police, where he obtained the rank of Commissioner in 1917/18; then joined the British Palestine Police, serving as assistant to the Head of the Police; was appointed as a Trial Judge in 1946, then as Judge of the Central Court, and as First Judge at the Court of Appeal; in 1950, was appointed by the Jordanian government as an administrative officer in Nablus, then in Jerusalem and Hebron; became Governor of Jerusalem; in 1960, Jordanian Minister of the Royal Court, Minister of Interior, and member of the House of Senates for several terms until 1967; was granted several Jordanian rewards and medals; was given medal of the Moroccan ‘Alawi, the Syrian Order, the Second Leopold Belgium medal of the first rank; a British medal of St. John with the rank of a knight, the Iranian Crown medal, the Spanish Order, and St. George’s Greek medal; in 1977, left Jerusalem for Mecca, where he died the same year.
