Abd el-Kader, an exemplary Algerian

Abd al-Kader was born in 1808 in the West of Algeria near Mascara, in the tribe of Hashem. His country was then dependent on the Sultan of Constantinople, represented by a bey, elected by the military caste of the Turkish Janisaries, who kept garrisoned in the cities. Under this rather distant administration, the great leaders of the Arab tribes [...] This article Abd al-Kader, the Algerian exemplary written by Jacques Frémeaux appeared first on…