List of Qadi and Mufti of Jerusalem
- Shihab ad-Din Abulabbas al-Omawi al-Masri ? to 1440
- Shaikh Najm al-Din, late 17th century
- 'Ali ibn Habib Allah ibn Abi '1-Lutf, d. 1731
- Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahim Jarallah (Abu '1-Lutf), d. 1728
- Muhammad al-Khalili, d. 1734
- Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Muwaqqit, d. 1757
- Najm al-Din al-Khairi, d. 1759
- Muhammd al-Tafilati, d. 1778
- Sheikh Ḥasan b. ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥusayni (1781-1806/7)
- Muhammad Salih al-Imam, d. 1828
- Muḥammad Fadil Jārallāh d. 1856
- Mohammed Tahir al-Husayni from the 1860s to 1908
- Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Ḥusayni 1813
- Kamil al-Husayni from 1908 to 1921
- During World War I (1914–1918), the Ottoman Empire claimed that As'ad Shuqeiri was the Grand Mufti.
- Mohammad Amin al-Husayni from 1921 to 1936 dismissed by the British, but kept the title in the Arab world until 1948
- Hussam Al-din Jarallah from 1948 to 1954
Vacant – 1954 to 1993 - Sulaiman Ja'abari from 1993 to 1994
- Ekrima Sa'id Sabri from October 1994 to July 2006
- Muhammad Ahmad Hussein from July 2006 to the present
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