Ahmed Taoufik El Madani

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Ahmed Taoufik El Madani in the later 1970s

Ahmed Taoufik El Madani , also Ahmed Tewfik El Madani ( Arabic أحمد توفيق المدني, DMG Aḥmad Taufīq al-Madanī ; * November 1, 1898 in Tunis ; † October 18, 1983 in Algiers ), was an Algerian historian and politician. He was active as a politician in Tunisia and Algeria.

biography

Youth in Tunisia

Ahmed Taoufik was born in Tunis in 1898 to Algerian parents of Turkish descent who emigrated to Tunisia in 1872 after the failure of the Mokrani revolt . He attended Ez-Zitouna University from 1913 to 1915 . He later became one of the founders of the nationalist Destur party , which had several members of Algerian descent, such as B. their President Abdelaziz Thâalbi . Taoufik distinguished himself by secretly entering the barracks of the Kasbah of Tunis to meet Thâalbi.

Figure of the national movement

After going into exile in Algeria in 1925, he took part in the founding of the Association of Algerian Muslim Legal Scholars under the presidency of Imam Abdelhamid Ben Badis . He became the political editor of Al Shihab magazine in 1931 and then editor-in-chief of that magazine. In 1952 he became permanent secretary of the Front algérien pour la défense et le respect de la liberté and took part in the founding of the National Liberation Front (FLN).

In 1956 he traveled to Cairo with his friend Sheikh Abbas , where they participated in the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic under the presidency of Ferhat Abbas . El Madani was appointed head of the Arab Office of the FLN Cairo (1956-1958). He later became Minister of Culture in the First Provisional Government and, after the country's independence, Minister of Waqf under the presidency of Ahmed Ben Bella . He later also became Algeria's ambassador to Iraq, Turkey and Iran.

As a historian

As a historian and member of the Academy of Arabic Language , he has published several books on the Maghreb : Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord, ou Carthage en quatre siècles , Le Livre de l'Algérie , Les Musulmans en Sicile et dans le sud de l'Italie , La Géographie de l'Algérie et Ibn Khaldoun et l'Algérie . In his works he praised the Muslim and Arab ancestors of Algeria, among others. He also wrote memoranda and a play, Hannibal (1950), which was intended to reinforce Tunisian national sentiment.

According to historian Ali Merad, El Madani was "one of the figures who most actively contributed to the development of nationalism during the interwar period."

Web links

Commons : Ahmed Tewfik el Madani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After his son Mohamed Islam, El Madani's birth was registered on June 16, 1899, because he had no civil status in Tunisia.
  2. ↑ James McDougall: History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-521-84373-1 , pp. 158 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Nadir Iddir: Né un premier novembre (fr) . In: El Watan , October 29, 2009. 
  4. ^ Madani Ahmad Tawfiq Al- (1899-1983). In: universalis.fr. Retrieved November 25, 2018 (French).
  5. ↑ Patrick Crowley: Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism, 1988-2013 . Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78694-021-6 , pp. 246 (English, google.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Madani, Ahmed Taoufik El
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madani, Ahmed Tewfik El; أحمد توفيق المدني (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis , Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1983
Place of death Algiers , Algeria