Emir Abdelkader

Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)

Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (between 1806 and 1808 – 26 May 1883; Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محي الدين, romanized: ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥy al-Dīn), known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers from 1831 to 1847. As an Islamic scholar and Sufi who unexpectedly found himself leading a military campaign, he assembled a coalition of Algerian tribes that resisted one of the most powerful armies in Europe for 17 years. His treatment of prisoners and civilians has often been cited as an early example of humanitarian conduct in warfare, particularly by his Christian opponents.

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