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Where did Abd el-Krim study Islamic law before becoming a resistance leader?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

Before becoming a resistance leader, Abd el-Krim studied Islamic law and classical Arabic grammar and literature at the traditional madrasah of al-Qarawiyyīn in Fès, where he was sent in 1902.1