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| Places | Ottoman Empire Palestine | |||
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| Religion: | Sunni islam | |||
| Birth | 1911, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel | |||
| Death | 1993 (aged 82 years) | |||
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Saad al-Alami (Arabic: سعد الدين العلمي ; 1911–1993) was a Sunni Muslim religious leader of the Palestinian people and the fourth Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He became Grand Mufti in 1952 until his death in 1993.
Al-Alami was born in Jerusalem in 1911, and worked as a Shari‘a Judge in Ramallah from 1948–51 and in Nablus from 1951-53.
On the death of his predecessor Jarallah in 1952, the Jordanian Waqf appointed Saad al-Alami as his replacement.