Hasan Khaled Abu Al-Huda CBE (Arabic: حسن خالد ابو الهدى; 1871 – 1937[1]) was a politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of Transjordan twice in 1923–24 and 1926–1931.
[3] Hasan Khaled was the son of Abu al-Huda al-Sayyadi, an Islamic scholar from Khan Shaykhun, Syria, who claimed descent from the Sufi saint Ahmad al-Rifa'i.
Sayyadi was the leader of the Rifa'i Sufi order, the Sheikh al-Islam, the chief Naqib al-Ashraf and religious adviser of Sultan Abdulhamid II on Arab affairs.
He married an Egyptian of Turkish origins, Devlet Abu Gabal, with whom he had two daughters, Velia Abdel-Huda (1916-2012), an Oxford-educated socialite and art historian, and Halime Lima Hanımefendi (1919-2000), who married Şehzade Mehmed Nazım, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin;[7] and a son, Taj al-Din, who, like his grandfather, had been more religiously inclined and was appointed president of the Aleppan Ashraf in 1942.
[8] Following the Young Turk Revolution, Hasan Khaled is said to have escaped Istanbul to Paris, where he funded himself using the proceeds of a company which he sold.