Algeria: Abdul Qadir ibn Muhyiddin (aka Abd El-Kader ibn Muhieddine, 1808-1883), Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader, in Egypt, c. 1870

Abd El-Kader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 near Mascara – 26 May 1883 Damascus), (Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محيي الدين‎ ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn) known as Emīr ʿAbd al-Qādir or ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-nineteenth century, for which he is seen by some Algerians as their national hero.

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