ABDELKADER

born Sept. 6, 1808, Guetna, near Mascara, Alg. died May 26, 1883, Damascus, Syria also spelled Abd El-kader, or Abdul-qadir, Arabic in full 'abd Al-qadir Ibn Muhyi Ad-din Ibn Mustafa Al-hasani Al-jaza'iri amir of Mascara (from 1832), the military and religious leader who founded the Algerian state and led the Algerians in their 19th-century struggle against French domination (1840-46). Additional reading Paul Azan, L'mir Abd el Kader, 1808-1883, du fanatisme musulman au patriotisme franais (1925), the most complete work, but currently out of date; Marcel Emerit, L'Algrie l'poque d'Abd-el-Kader (1951), documents and commentaries; Ren Gallissot, "Abd el-Kader et la nationalit algrienne," Revue Historique, 233:339-368 (1965); Charles Henry Churchill, The Life of Abdel Kader, Ex-Sultan of the Arabs of Algeria (1867).