Abbassi Madani

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Abbassi Madani (born February 28, 1931 in Sidi Okba , French North Africa ; † April 24, 2019 in Qatar ) was an Algerian educationalist and Islamist politician . He was the president and ideological leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) .

Life

Abbassi Madani was born the son of an imam in the southeast of what is now Algeria. He received a traditional Arabic-language education with predominantly religious content. Madani was an FLN activist involved in the opening of the Algerian War on the night of November 1, 1954 and was imprisoned by the French colonial power for eight years.

During the 1960s, Madani became disillusioned with pan-Arabism and turned to Islamism . In 1963 he joined an association for the spread of Islamic values. In 1966 he demonstrated against the execution of the Muslim Brotherhood ideologist Sayyid Qutb in Egypt . Madani caught up with a Western education and took courses in psychology and philosophy . In 1978 he obtained a doctorate in education in London and got a job at the University of Algiers . At the university he excelled as a spokesman for the Islamist movement. As a result, he was imprisoned for four years during the reign of Chadli Bendjedid .

After the political system was liberalized by Bendjedid, Abbassi Madani became president and leading head of the Islamic Salvation Front. The Salvation Front achieved great approval as a gathering movement of groups who wanted to establish an Islamic state in Algeria in various ways. A military coup after the national election victory of the FIS in 1991/1992 marked the beginning of the Algerian civil war , in which the FIS was banned and broken up by the Algerian military.

Abbassi Madani spent the war in prison until 1997. In 1999 he spoke out in favor of an end to the violence in the civil war. In 2003 he went into exile in Qatar .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c John L. Esposito, John O. Voll: Islam and Democracy. New York, 1996, pp. 156-158.
  2. ^ Hugh Roberts: The Battlefield Algeria 1988-2002 - Studies in a Broken Polity. London, 2003, p. 23.
  3. ↑ John Ruedy: Modern Algeria - The Origins of Development of a Nation. Bloomington, 2005, pp. 251-257.
  4. ^ Short biography of Abbasi al-Madani from the Encyclopædia Britannica , accessed on September 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Madani, Abbassi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madani, Abbassi al-; Madani, Abbasi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian Islamist politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Sidi Okba , French North Africa
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2019
Place of death Qatar