Salah ad-Din al-Bitar

Salah al-Din Khair al-Bitar is a politician, one of the prime ministers of Syria, and one of the founders of the Baath Party, along with Michel Aflaq and Zaki al-Arsuzi. His full name is Salah Khair Salim Al-Bitar. His grandfather was Sheikh Salim Al-Bitar, nicknamed Al-Fardhi. He had four sons: Sheikh Khair, the father of Salah Al-Bitar, Sheikh Muhammad, who held the position of Secretary General of Fatwa in Damascus, Sheikh Abdul Ghani, called Al-Shafi’i Al-Saghir, and the fourth, Sheikh Abdul Razzaq, author of the book Hilyat Al-Bishr in the history of the thirteenth century AH.