Birth: NULL/NULL/1871 Death:NULL/NULL/1927
Born in Jaffa in 1871; raised in a family of renounced Islamic Sheikhs from Jaffa; was educated by his father and uncle, and learnt French at the College de Frères in Jaffa as well as Turkish; became a judge in the Jaffa court; in 1922, was elected member of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem, representing the Jaffa district; worked for the Judiciary during the Ottoman era; was a member of the Muslim-Christian Association in Jaffa; led the Jaffa delegation that negotiated with the British Mandate military commander following the outbreak of riots in Jaffa in 1921 in response to Zionist mass immigration; was the first representative of Jaffa to the Islamic Higher Council in 1921; served as representative of Jaffa to several Arab conferences; founded a committee in Jaffa in solidarity with the Syrian revolt in 1925 and provided a special house for Syrian political asylum seekers; founded an agricultural society (incl. some 70 villages in the Jaffa, Lydda and Ramleh areas) and was elected its Pres. in 1924; died in 1927.
