Faidi/Fidi/Fedi/Faydi Effendi [1] el/al-'Alami (1865 [2] [3] or 1881 [4] : 117 –1924 [2] [3] [4] ;Arabic:فيضيالعلمي) 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]
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