Jund Filastin
Khayr al-Din al-Ramli was born in al-Ramla in Ottoman Palestine. At that time, al-Ramla was a major garrison town (and in the early years of Islamic rule it had been the administrative capital of the Jund Filastin, or military district of Palestine). Al-Ramli receives his name from the town; "al-Ramli" translates as "from Ramla." Not much is known about al-Ramli's early life other than he began reading the Qur'an as young child.