Sheikh (Master) of Jewelers ... Inherited a big legacy from his fathers, and grandfathers, he has more than a hundred years. He began his business in 1907 by his grandfather; Mohamed Hassan Farsi during the Ottoman Empire in Hijaz, later he became the Sheikh (Master) of Mecca Jewelers during the era of AlShareef Al-Hussein and then continued as the Sheikh of Jewelers after the entry of King Abdul Aziz to Makkah. He has started very young in this profession as a result of persuading one of Indian traders him to begin this work, and taken him after the Hajj in the same boat to India and grantee him at some Jaipur traders; the city of gems in India, then his business spread to Malay, Java, and Burma. and it was the only institution that specialized in only jewelry in Holy Mecca, where the trade at that time was basically working in gold or silver, in those beginnings the Kingdom were rarely known jewelry unless pearl in Al-Ehsa and some types of garnet, although the Hijaz as its contacts with the Muslim world it has most beautiful jewelry of Islamic world. All are; diamond from Java, Fairuz from Fares, gate from Yemen till beads of Morocco, so while regions of the Kingdom have one Sheikh (Master) of the profession, there was in the Hijaz Sheikh for jewelers and another for gems and third for rosary.. Traditionally, the chieftain of jewelers at Al Badr who are jewelers of the Kaaba last three doors.
He obtained bachelor of business administration from Cairo University , Masters degree in Management from San Diego University, California, United States of America, a diploma from of jewelry from the American Institute of jewelry , and he got many short courses in the world of jewelry from (Vicenza, Italy, Toronto, and Canada).
He was elected by Jeddah Jewelers as a head of them in 1401H, and was elected as a president of the Gold and Jewellery committee at the Chamber of Commerce in Jeddah for several sessions, appointed president for other sessions , a board member of the Diamond Exchange in Dubai, a board member of the literary & cultural Club in Jeddah since 2006, semi-regular writer at Al-Madinah newspaper , he has published articles in AlNadwa (the symposium), AlBilad, Okaz, AlWatan Newspapers , he held several lectures on the relationship between jewelry design art with the environment and the factors affecting the price of jewelry, history of curiosity (Manama, Bahrain)
He participated in the workshops of several international conferences concerned of public affairs, including: Forum Arab civil societies of Children (Cairo, November 2005)- Cooperation of Cities against Poverty (Valencia, Spain, 2006)- the Conference of World Assembly of Muslim Youth (Cairo, 2007) - third Summit of International Family Organization( Warso – 2007) – fifth Summit of International Family Organization ( Istanbul-2009) – the Summit of International Family Organizationfor Education ( Paris- Dec. 2010).