Al-Armouti was born on 16 July 1924 in Amman.[1] He went to school in Amman and Al-Salt, and he later studied at Damascus University in Syria and the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, obtaining a bachelor of law in 1946. In 1948 al-Armouti became secretary general of the Interior Ministry of Jordan. He held several other functions in the bureaucracy before starting a string of governorships between 1955 and 1961, including Hebron, Irbid, Karak, Ma'an, Nablus and Salt.[1]