My Algerian Notes - Emir Abd el Kader

My Algerian Notes - Emir Abd el Kader

 

Emir Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883) also known as Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Djezairi

"If I have accepted leadership, this is to have the right to be the first to march in the battles, and I am ready to step behind any other chief whom you judge more worthy and more capable than me to lead you, provided that he pledges to take in hand the cause of our faith."~ Emir Abdelkader


 "During the early part of the nineteenth century, Algerian tribal leader and scholar of the Qur’an, Abd el-Kader, solidified his position as not only a freedom fighter, but as Louis Werner called him, a true “Prince of Brotherhood.” He not only fought against the French occupation of Algeria, but was an advocate for religious tolerance and the idea of cultural openness. He is considered by Algerians to be the founder of the modern day Algeria and has the distinction of having the only town in the United States with an Arab name specifically named for him (Elkader, Iowa)..."
~ Abd el-Kader: Embodiment of True Jihad - Part 1 http://tinyurl.com/lekptpm


History, according to the truism, is written by the victors. Yet, it was the French victors who paid homage to the moral, intellectual and spiritual qualities that made Abd-el- Kader a widely recognized great man of the mid-19th century. Emir Abd-el-Kader inspired respect from Missouri to Moscow. His story is about many things, but ultimately it is about struggle: struggle against French invaders, struggle with Arabs who rejected his leadership, struggle with depression and despair in French prisons, struggle to live as a good Muslim.
~ John W. Kiser, Emir Abd-el-Kader Ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883) http://emirabdelkader.net/ 


Articles 

 Abdelkader El Djezairi http://tinyurl.com/loposoa

 Abdelkader El Djezairi : biography http://tinyurl.com/nmjvrr7  http://tinyurl.com/nfnoyoe

 Abd el-Kader: Embodiment of True Jihad - Part 1 http://tinyurl.com/lekptpm
 Abd el-Kader: Embodiment of True Jihad - Part 2 http://tinyurl.com/ldbpuwo

 AMIR ABD-AL-QADER'S STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH http://tinyurl.com/o8pxmcy

 Emir Abdelkader http://tinyurl.com/leht5as

 Emir Abdelkader, “undisputed” leader in the codification of modern International Humanitarian Law http://tinyurl.com/qcj3bh4

 Emir Abd-el-Kader Ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883) http://emirabdelkader.net/ 


 Commander of the Faithful, a book about Emir Abd el-Kader http://tinyurl.com/l7alox9

 How a 19th Century Sufi Inspires Algerian Youth to Write about Human Rights http://tinyurl.com/ngpst6t

 L'Emir Abd-El-Kader et  les prémices de l'Etat Algérien moderne http://tinyurl.com/lp8o5av

 Visit the Ancient City of Mascara http://tinyurl.com/nvj3nbe


Books & Writings

 Abdelkader El Djezairi, Origin of the Arab Horse http://tinyurl.com/oz3s26b

 Emir Abd el-Kader: Hero and Saint of Islam” (ISBN: 978-1-936597-17-8) http://tinyurl.com/kgk3sqb


Video
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0Kmray4Lk
  L'Emir Abdelkader et l'histoire Franco-Algériennehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwH2bo6h9x0


Origin of the Arab Horse. Letter of the Emir Abd-el-Kader, from "The Horses of the Sahara," by General E. Dumas, 1857:
"Praise be to the one God!  "To him who remains ever the same amid the revolutions of this world: "To our friend General Dumas.
"Peace be with you, through the mercy and blessing of Allah, on the part of the writer of this letter, on that of his mother, his children, their mother, of all the members of his family and of all his associates.
"To proceed: I have read your questions, I address to you my answers.
"You ask me for information as to the origin of the Arab horse. You are like unto a fissure in a land dried up by the sun, and which no amount of rain, however abundant, will ever be able to satisfy.
"Nevertheless, to quench, if possible, your thirst (for knowledge), I will this time go back to the very head of the fountain. The stream is there always the freshest and most pure.
"Know, then, that among us it is admitted that Allah created the horse out of the wind, as he created Adam out of mud.
"This can not be questioned. Several prophets - peace be with them! - have proclaimed what follows :
"When Allah willed to create the horse, he said to the south wind:
"'I will that a creature should proceed from thee condense thyself!' and the wind condensed itself. Then came the angel Gabriel, and he took a handful of this matter and presented it to Allah, who formed of it a dark bay or a dark chestnut horse (koummite- red mingled with black), saying:
"'I have called thee horse (frass); I have created the Arab, and I have bestowed Upon thee the color koummite. I have attached good fortune to the hair that falls between thy eyes. Thou shalt be the lord (sid) of all other animals. Men shall follow thee wheresoever thou goest. Good for pursuit as for flight, thou shalt fly without wings. Upon thy back shall riches repose, and through thy means shall wealth come.'
"Then he signed him with the sign of glory and of good fortune (ghora, a star in the middle of the forehead)."
 ~ http://tinyurl.com/oz3s26b