Faidi al-Alami | |
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فيضي العلمي | |
Mayor of Jerusalem | |
In office 1906–1909 | |
Preceded by | Musa Kazim al-Husayni |
Succeeded by | Hussein al-Husayni |
Representative of Jerusalem in Ottoman Parliament | |
In office 1914–? | |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Palestinian |
Children | Musa al-Alami (son) |
Parent | Musa al-Alami (father) |
Faidi/Fidi/Fedi/Faydi Effendi [1] el/al-'Alami (1865 [2] [3] or 1881 [4]: 117 – 1924 [2] [3] [4]; Arabic: فيضي العلمي) was Mayor of Jerusalem from 1906 to 1909. [2] Among his legacies was having helped improve the city and expand municipal services leading to an increase in construction of Christian institutions and Jewish neighborhoods outside of the Old City. [4]
Before serving as Mayor, al-Alami was a tax official for the district authority. [2] [5] [4] then a member of the judicial committee that worked with the qadi, [4] and then he was appointed, in 1902, as district commissioner/director/officer of the Bethlehem subdistrict, [2] [4] [6] thereafter serving in an elected role on the Jerusalem municipal council. [4]
After serving as Mayor, he was appointed to the administrative council of Jerusalem. [2] [4] From 1914 to 1918, he was elected as one of three representatives of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies. [2] [4] [6] [5]
He also compiled and published a concordance of the Qur'an. [2] [4]
His father was Musa 'Alami, who previously served as Jerusalem mayor, during the 1870s. [4] [5] He was married to Zuleikha al-Ansari, with whom he had two children: a son Musa/Mousa Bey [1] [2] (who was assistant attorney-general of Palestine under the British mandate [7]) and a daughter Na'mati/Nai'mati/Na'amite/Ni'mati [1] (who married Jamal al-Husseini [7]). [6] [8]
For many years, Faidi al-Alami was the head of the 'Alami extended family, managing its extensive properties and endowments. [4] The Alamis were among "the most prominent landowning families from Jerusalem." [5]
Found in the Musa al-Alami Collection, this document shows a medical-chemical report for Faidi al-Alami partially handwritten in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, and the rest was printed and issued by a Chemical Laboratory supervised by Dr S.Sabbath.