Birth: NULL/NULL/1882 Death:NULL/NULL/1954
Born in Nablus in 1882; was educated at the Faculty of Law in Istanbul; assumed various positions during the late Ottoman era and the early Arab government, set up by Emir Faisal in Damascus; became the first head of the Law Institute in Damascus; returned to Nablus after the fall of Faisal’s rule; was elected member in the Higher Shari’a Islamic Council in Nablus for four years; worked as law teacher in Jerusalem and wrote in the field; became Chairman of the Lawyers’ League; established the Hizb Al-Ahali Party in 1921 to compete with the Nablus branch of the Muslim-Christian Association; served as representative for the Nablus district in the Supreme Muslim Council from 1922-26; became a member to it in the early 1930s; founder and leader of the National Bloc (Al-Kutlah Al-Wataniyah), a moderate party, established in Oct. 1935 in Nablus, which stood for political independence of Palestine but was unable to mobilize sufficient support; member of the first Arab Higher Committee formed in 1936 and his party’s representative to it; died around 1954.
