Birth: 1/1/1863 Death:1/1/1941
Born in Jerusalem in 1863; educated in Religion and Religious Law at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, then in Istanbul; graduated from the Shari’a School; had different administrative positions; developed a keen interest in Arab and Islamic manuscripts and toured the Arab World as a manuscript classification specialist; served as Qadi of Aleppo from 1901-03; traveled in Morocco and Andalusia and wrote a book about his journey; returned to Istanbul in 1905, but soon after settled in Jerusalem; took great care for his library and home in the Old City of Jerusalem; one of the founders of the Union and Progress Party (Al-Ittihad Wal Taraqqi); was appointed Chief Justice of the Shari’a Court of Appeal by the British in 1921, remaining in this post for 14 years until his retirement in 1935; was also a renown authority on calligraphy; wrote different articles and authored several books, incl. the 30-volume Khalidi Selections in Literature; died in Cairo in 1941; the Khalidiyyah Library in the Old City of Jerusalem still bears his name.
