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| Office | 5th Prime Minister of Transjordan
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| Office | Prime Minister of Hejaz |
| Office | Deputy Prime Minister of Hejaz |
| Term start | 22 February 1931 |
| Term end | 18 October 1933 |
| Predecessor | Hasan Khalid Abu al-Huda |
| Successor | Ibrahim Hashem
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| Born | c. 1876 or c. 1879 |
| Born | Mecca, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | c. May 1949 |
| Place of death | Kingdom of Jordan
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| Alma mater | Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah al-Azhar University
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Abdullah ibn Abdur-Rahman Siraj (Template:Langx;Template:Lrm 1876 – May 1949Template:Fact) 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 Hanafis in Mecca by Sharif Ali Abd Allah. He was elected to represent Mecca in the 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 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 Saudi Sultanate of Nejd in 1925. He then migrated to the Jordan, where under Emir Abd Allah he served as Prime Minister from 1931 to 1933 while simultaneously holding the portfolios of Finance[1] and the Interior Ministry, as well as the office of Chief Justice.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
References
- ↑ Financial Ministers. mof.gov.jo.
- ↑ الإفتاء في مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة ما قبل الحكم السعودي. alhejaz.org.
- ↑ مملكة الحجاز 1916-1925 : دراسة في الاوضاع السياسية / Mamlakat al-Ḥijāz (1916-1925): dirāsah fī al-awḍāʻ al-sīyāsīyah{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Markaz Dirāsāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī bī-Jāmiʻat al-Baṣrah(1990)
- ↑ Modernity in Makkah: History at a glance. Arab News(4 March 2010).
- ↑ الملك علي بن الشريف حسين / al-Malik 'Alī ibn ash-Sharīf Ḥusayn({Template:Date).
- ↑ الحالة السياسية في الحجاز في أواخر سنة 1334. Al-Manār({Template:Date).
- ↑ آل سراج / Āl Sirāj. alhejaz.org.
- ↑ مجلس الوكلاء في مكة المكرمة نواة السلطة التنفيذية (مجلس الوزراء) في عهد الملك عبدالعزيز(29 September 2011). Translation: The nucleus of the executive branch. Arab News(18 November 2011).
- ↑ أعلام الحجاز في القرن الرابع عشر للهجرة / A'lām al-Ḥijāz fi qarn ar-rābi' 'ashr lil-hijrah{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Maṭba‘at al-Madanī(1990)
- ↑ 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 Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of California Press(1997)