Birth: 1/1/1855 Death:1/1/1920
Born in Jerusalem in 1855; studied in Istanbul and at Al-Azhar University in Cairo; Judge and Mufti of the Shafi’i Mathhab (School of Islamic Jurisprudence) in Palestine from 1902-1920; was an enthusiast of arithmetic and astronomy studies; wrote several books in Turkish and Arabic on various sciences; commissioned the two sun clocks at the southern outside wall of the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem; died in 1920.
