(1807-1883) Algerian religious and military leader, considered the founder of the Algerian state, hero of resistance to French colonial rule. Born in a small village near Mousakar (Mascara), Algeria, to the head of a Sufi Muslim brotherhood, Abd al-Qadir early on gained a reputation for piety and cultural refinement. In 1826 al-Qadir and his father began a pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā'irī (6 September 1808 - 26 May 1883, in Arabic عبد القادر الجزائري) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader ...
Abd al-Qadir: see Abd al-Kader Abd al-Kader (äb'däl-kädēr`), c.1807–1883, Algerian military and religious leader..... Click the link for more information.
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