Abdelhamid Ben Badis

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Abdelhamid Ben Badis

Abdelhamid Ben Badis (born December 4, 1889 in Constantine , French Algeria , † April 16, 1940 in Constantine) was a Sunni religious scholar in Algeria during French colonial rule . He was part of a movement of reformist religious scholars who supported Algerian nationalism on a religious basis against the religious notables co-opted by France.

Life

Abdelhamid Ben Badi's father and grandfather were high-ranking dignitaries of the colonial state. One of his brothers studied law in France and works as a lawyer. Ben Badis went through a private, traditional training and studied to be an Islamic religious scholar at the madrasa of the Ez-Zitouna mosque in Tunis . He then went on an educational trip through the Middle East and finally settled back in Algeria.

In 1925 Ben Badis founded the magazine Al Muntaqid , which was banned by the colonial authorities because of articles that sympathized with the rebels in the Rif War . After the ban, he founded the monthly magazine Al-Schihab , which was a central publication organ of reformist legal scholars in Algeria until the eve of the Second World War . In 1936 Ben Badis stated the independence of the Algerian nation and its incompatibility with integration into the French nation. Al Schihab magazine was preventively banned by the French authorities due to the looming threat of war.

In 1931, Ben Badis was a founder and first head of the Association of Algerian Muslim Legal Scholars . Above all, the organization relied on a reformed school education at denominational private schools with the aim of education in Arabic in contrast to the efforts of the colonial power.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Ruedy: Modern Algeria - The Origins and Development of a Nation , 2nd edition, Bloomington, 2005, pp 133-135
  2. ↑ John Ruedy: Modern Algeria - The Origins and Development of a Nation. 2nd edition, Bloomington, 2005, pp. 133-135
  3. ↑ Jean-Pierre Peyroulou: 1919 - 1944: à l'heure des initiatives algériennes in Abderrahmane Bouchène, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Ouanassa Siara Tengour, Sylvia Thênault: Histoire de l'Algérie à la Période Coloniale. Paris 2014, p. 332f
  4. ^ Gilbert Grandguillaume: L'enseignement de la langue arabe dans l'entre-deux-guerres. in Abderrahmane Bouchène, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Ouanassa Siara Tengour, Sylvia Thênault: Histoire de l'Algérie à la Période Coloniale. Paris 2014, pp. 406f
personal data
SURNAME Ben Badis, Abdelhamid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sunni religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantine , French Algeria
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1940
Place of death Constantine , French Algeria