Sheikh ʿAbd al-Hamid Ben Badis

…Arab Islamic nationalist movement of Sheik ʿAbd al-Hamid Ben Badis. After the war the French were on the defensive, conceding independence to Tunisia and Morocco in 1956 in order to concentrate their efforts on Algeria, where a full-scale rebellion led by the National Liberation Front (FLN) broke out in 1954.…

…scholars and intellectuals such as ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn Badis (1899–1940), founder in 1931 of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama, and ʿAllāl al-Fāsī (1910–74) in Morocco reconceived the identity of their countries in Islamic terms and played significant roles in nationalist movements until independence was achieved. Between the two World…

…on May 5, 1935, by Sheikh ʿAbd al-Hamid ben Badis, was heavily influenced by the views of the Muslim jurist and reformer Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849–1905). It adopted his belief that Islam was essentially a flexible faith, capable of adapting to the modern world if freed of its non-Islamic and vulgar…