The ʿAlamī family is a prominent and longstanding Muslim family of Jerusalem. Though often associated with an ashrāf family from Fez by the same name, or with a certain ʿAlamī who accompanied Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn in the reconquest of Jerusalem in 583/1187, recent research traces the family's genealogy to Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-ʿAlam, a governor of Jerusalem from 793-5/1390-3, who may have originated from Ḥiṣn ʿAkkār, near Tripoli (Ṭarābulus al-Shām). Mūsā was succeeded as governor by his brother ʿUmar (d. 806/1403-4).