Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Muslim scholar
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Place of Birth: Constantine, Constantine Province, Algeria
About Abdelhamid Ben Badis
- Abdelhamid Ben Badis (Arabic: ??? ?????? ?? ??????, Ben Badis; December 4, 1889 – April 16, 1940) was an emblematic figure of the Islamic Reform movement in Algeria.
- In 1931, Ben Badis founded the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema, which was a national grouping of many Islamic scholars in Algeria from many different and sometimes opposing perspectives and viewpoints.
- The Association would have later a great influence on Algerian Muslim politics up to the Algerian War of Independence.
- In the same period, it set up many institutions where thousands of Algerian children of Muslim parents were educated.
- The Association also published a monthly journal, the Al-Chihab and souheil Ben Badis contributed regularly to it between 1925 and his death in 1940.
- The journal informed its readers about the Association's ideas and thoughts on religious reform and spoke on other religious and political issues.
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