Abd El-Kader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 near Mascara – 26 May 1883 Damascus), (Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محيي الدين ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn) known as Emīr ʿAbd al-Qādir or ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-nineteenth century, for which he is seen by some Algerians as their national hero.
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Abd El-Kader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 near Mascara – 26 May 1883 Damascus), (Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محيي الدين ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn) known as Emīr ʿAbd al-Qādir or ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-nineteenth century, for which he is seen by some Algerians as their national hero.
`Abd al-Qādir is often referred to only as `El Amir Abdelkader, since al-Jazā'iri simply means "the Algerian". His name can be variously transliterated from its Arabic spelling as Abd al-Kadir, Abdel Kader, Abdelkader, and other variant spellings. He is also often given the titles amir, prince, and shaykh or sheik.
`Abd al-Qādir was born near the town of Mascara near Oran, in 1807 or 1808. His father, Muhyi al-Din al-Hasani, was a shaykh in the Qadiri sufi order of Islam. He was a Banu Ifran Berber and claimed descendance from Muhammad.
In his childhood he memorized the Qur...
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