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Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine
Acting
06 Sept 1808
† 26 May 1883
El Guettana, Algeria
Biography
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (Arabic: عبد القادر بن محي الدين (ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn), also known as Emir Abdelkader, or Abdelkader El Djezairi (Abdelkader the Algerian), born September 6, 1808 in El Guettana, in the regency of Algiers, and died May 26, 1883 in Damascus, Syria, is an Algerian emir, religious and military leader, who led a fight against the conquest of Algeria by France in the middle of the 19th century. His father, Mahieddine, from the Qadiriyya Sufi religious brotherhood, g...
Also Known As
عبد القادر بن محي الدين, Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn, Émir Abdelkader, Abdelkader El Djezairi , عـبـد الـقـادر الـجـزائـري


