Salim

Dr. Salim bin Mohamed Abu Al-Nasr Al-Yafi He was born in Marjayoun (Lebanon) in 1919. He studied law at Damascus University and graduated from it.He joined the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1944 AD. He was appointed as a consul in the Syrian embassy in Egypt 1945, Turkey 1947, Saudi Arabia 1954, Switzerland, and […]

Saad Al-Din

Sheikh Saad Al-Din Effendi bin Muhyi Al-Din Al-Yafi:(1240 – 1312 AH) —- (1824 – 1894 AD) He was born in Damascus in the year 1240 AH / 1824 AD. He studied with the scholars of his time, and approached the high class of them.He has a position in the legal judiciary in most of the […]

Rushdi

Al-Qaim Maqam Rushdi bin Farid Pasha bin Al-Sayyid Saad Al-Din Al-Yafi Rushdi Bey Al-Yafi mediating a group of officials in the Hauran region of Syria in 1933 He was born in Damascus in 1297 AH.He studied in Istanbul and married Mrs. Fahimeh (Turkish national), then married his cousin, Mrs. Jihan Al Yafi. He served in […]

Omar-Jr

Sheikh Omar bin Abdul Badi bin Omar bin Mohamed Al Zuhri Al Yafi Sheikh Omar was born to the a major merchant from the Levant, who settled in Jeddah.He was nicknamed Sheikh Al-Qammasheen (the Master of Textile Industry) in Jeddah, in addition to his brother Sheikh Tawfiq, the father of the well-known Saudi businessman Sheikh […]

Naim

Dr. Naim bin Hassan bin Tawfiq Al Yafi He was born in Homs, Syria, in 1936, and studied in its schools and frequented to the sheikhs of its mosques and seminaries of knowledge. Dr. Naim was Homsi by birth, Aleppian by residence, and Damascene by work and whim. He graduated from Cairo University with a […]

Muhyi

Sheikh Muhyi Al-Din bin Sheikh Omar Al-Yafi(Born 1803 AD – 1218 AH and died in 1886 AD – 1304 AH) He was born in Damascus in 1803 AD and was taught by his father and other sheikhs of Damascus.He was a scholar and an intellectual. He came to Beirut in 1843 AD and settled there. […]

Musaed

Mr. Musaed bin Mustafa bin Mohamed Abu Al-Nasr bin Omar Al Yafi:(1303 – 1363 AH) corresponding to (1886 – 1943 AD) He was born in Tripoli of Levant, and educated at the Freer Institute. He moved to Egypt and worked in Dar Al-Manar and then in Al-Moayad newspaper. Translated from French the book “The Raid […]

Mohamed Fuad

Judge Mohamed Fuad bin Mohamed Saeed bin Al-Sayyid Saad Al-Din Al-Yafi(1892 – 1936 AD) He was born in Damascus in the Sarouja market neighborhood in 1892 AD. He studied the judiciary at Istanbul University then served in the Ottoman army in Jerusalem in 1916. He married the daughter of his cousin, Mrs. Fatima bint Rushdi […]

Lotfi

Lawyer Lotfi bin Farid Pasha Al-Yafi He studied law and worked as a writer and lawyer.On August 28, 1925, Lutfi Al Yafi gave a speech to the worshipers in the Umayyad Great Mosque when he was eighteen years, inciting Damascus merchants to strike in protest against the French colonialism’s exclusion of the nationalists.As a result, […]

Khulusi

Mr. Khulusi bin Mohamed Saeed bin Saad Al-Din Al Yafi(1904-1975)