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{{Short description|Arab politician and Islamic scholar}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Abdullah Siraj
| native_name = عبد الله سراج
| native_name_lang = Arabic
| honorific_suffix =
| image = Abdullah Siraj.jpg
| image_size =
| office = 5th [[List of Prime Ministers of Jordan|Prime Minister of Transjordan]]
| order =
| term_start = 22 February 1931
| term_end = 18 October 1933
| successor = [[Ibrahim Hashem]]
| predecessor = [[Hasan Khalid Abu al-Huda]]
| monarch = [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abd Allah I]]
| office3 = [[Kingdom of Hejaz|Prime Minister of Hejaz]]
| term_start3 = October 1924
| term_end3 = November 1925
| predecessor3 = [[Ali of Hejaz|Ali]]
| successor3 = Muhammad at-Tawil
| monarch3 = [[Ali of Hejaz|Ali]]
| office4 = [[Kingdom of Hejaz|Deputy Prime Minister of Hejaz]]
| term_start4 = October 1916
| term_end4 = October 1924
| prime_minister4 = [[Ali of Hejaz|Ali]]
| monarch4 = [[Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca|Husayn]]
| office6 = Hanafi Mufti of Mecca
| term_start6 = {{circa|8 November 1907}}
| term_end6 = October 1924
| appointer6 = Ali Abd Allah Pasha
| predecessor6 = [[Abd Allah ibn Abbas ibn Siddiq|Abd Allah ibn Abbas]]
| successor6 =
| birth_date = c. 1876 or c. 1879
| birth_place = [[Mecca]], [[Hejaz Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| death_date = c. May 1949
| death_place = [[Kingdom of Jordan]]
| resting_place =
| party =
| alma_mater = [[Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah]]<br/>[[al-Azhar University]]
| awards =
}}

'''Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman Siraj''' ({{langx|ar|عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن سراج}};{{lrm}} 1876 – May 1949{{fact|date=October 2025}}) was a Jordanian politician and [[Islamic scholar]] who held various posts in the [[Kingdom of Hejaz]] and later the [[Emirate of Transjordan]], including the office of [[Prime Minister]] of both countries (including being the 5th Prime Minister of Jordan).

Born in [[Mecca]], he graduated from [[Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah]] and later [[al-Azhar University]] in [[Cairo]]. In 1907 he was appointed Mufti of the [[Hanafi]]s in Mecca by [[Ali Pasha ibn Abd Allah|Sharif Ali Abd Allah]]. He was elected to represent Mecca in the [[Chamber of Deputies (Ottoman Empire)|Ottoman parliament]] in 1908, though he resigned before he ever served. After [[Sharif Husayn]] declared independence from the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1916, he appointed Siraj as Chief Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of the Hejaz government.

Siraj served as acting Prime Minister in lieu of [[Ali of Hejaz|Emir Ali]] until 1918. After Husayn abdicated the throne in 1924, Siraj held the office of Prime Minister during most of Ali's short reign, which ended with the Kingdom's surrender to the [[House of Saud|Saudi]] [[Sultanate of Nejd]] in 1925. He then migrated to the [[Jordan]], where under [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Emir Abd Allah]] he served as Prime Minister from 1931 to 1933 while simultaneously holding the portfolios of [[Minister of Finance of Jordan|Finance]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mof.gov.jo/PressCenter/Photos/tabid/217/AlbumID/7/CurrentPage/1/selectedmoduleid/784/language/en-US/Default.aspx|title=Financial Ministers|website=mof.gov.jo}}</ref> and the [[Interior Ministry]], as well as the office of Chief Justice.<ref name="ifta">{{cite web|last1=Abū Sulaymān|first1=‘Abd al-Wahhāb|title=الإفتاء في مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة ما قبل الحكم السعودي|trans-title=The office of ''ifta'' in Mecca and Medina before Saudi rule|url=http://alhejaz.org/torath/0712601.htm|website=alhejaz.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Wahīm|first1=Ṭālīb Muḥammad|title=مملكة الحجاز 1916-1925 : دراسة في الاوضاع السياسية / Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz (1916-1925): dirāsah fī al-awḍāʻ al-sīyāsīyah|trans-title=Kingdom of Hejaz (1916-1925): A study in the political situation|date=1990|publisher=Markaz Dirāsāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī bī-Jāmiʻat al-Baṣrah|location=al-Baṣrah [Basra, Iraq]|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Sabbagh|first1=Mahmoud Abdul-Ghani|title=Modernity in Makkah: History at a glance|url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/338655|newspaper=Arab News|date=4 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=al-‘Ajrash |first=Ḥaydar Ḥātim Fāliḥ |date=6 May 2011 |title=الملك علي بن الشريف حسين / al-Malik 'Alī ibn ash-Sharīf Ḥusayn |url=http://repository.uobabylon.edu.iq/papers/publication.aspx?pubid=1640 |publisher=University of Babylon Repository of Open Access Papers}}</ref><ref name="rida">{{cite journal|last1=Rida|first1=Muhammad Rashid|authorlink1=Rashid Rida|title=الحالة السياسية في الحجاز في أواخر سنة 1334|trans-title=The political situation in the Hejaz at the end of the year 1334 AH|journal=Al-Manār|date=11 February 1918|volume=20|issue=6|pages=278–279|url=http://islamport.com/w/amm/Web/1306/3049.htm|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=17 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023033/http://islamport.com/w/amm/Web/1306/3049.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="alsiraj">{{cite web |title=آل سراج / Āl Sirāj |url=http://www.alhejaz.org/aalam/113701.htm |website=alhejaz.org}}</ref><ref name="shubayli">{{cite news|last1=ash-Shubaylī|first1=‘Abd ar-Raḥman|title=مجلس الوكلاء في مكة المكرمة نواة السلطة التنفيذية (مجلس الوزراء) في عهد الملك عبدالعزيز|trans-title=The Council of Ministers in Mecca, nucleus of the executive branch, in the time of King Abd al-Aziz|url=http://www.al-jazirah.com/2011/20110929/cu19.htm|publisher=Al-Jazirah|date=29 September 2011}} Translation: {{cite news|title=The nucleus of the executive branch|url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/398381|newspaper=Arab News|date=18 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="maghribi">{{cite book|last1=Maghribī|first1=Muḥammad ‘Alī|title=أعلام الحجاز في القرن الرابع عشر للهجرة / A'lām al-Ḥijāz fi qarn ar-rābi' 'ashr lil-hijrah|trans-title=Luminaries of the Hejaz in the 14th century AH|chapter=عبد الله عبد الرحمن سراج / ‘Abd Allāh ‘Abd ar-Raḥman Sirāj|date=1990|publisher=Maṭba‘at al-Madanī|location=al-Qāhirah [Cairo]|pages=375–393|edition=1st|volume=3}}</ref><ref>PRO. FO 195/2286. Monahan to Lowther. Jidda, 15 December 1908. "He is Mufti at Mecca of the Hanafi sect, as his father was before him. His family is of Indian origin but has been residing in Mecca for more than 200 years. His father died in exile in [[Egypt]] about 12 years ago, having incurred the displeasure of Grand Sharif Aun ar-Rafik, which would be a fact in his favor, and he himself (he is now about 35) was living in Constantinople in fear of the Grand Sharif for more than ten years until he returned two years ago to Mecca. He appears to have a good reputation, intellectually, and morally, and knows Turkish well..." Quoted in {{cite book|last1=Kayalı|first1=Hasan|title=Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918|date=1997|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7n39p1dn&chunk.id=d0e9263&anchor.id=bn05.40|chapter=A Case Study in Centralization: The Hijaz under Young Turk Rule, 1908–1914}}</ref>

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[[Category:Muftis of Mecca]]

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