Cheikh Bouamama
Born1841[1][2]
DiedOctober 7, 1908(1908-10-07) (aged 66–67)[3][4]
Known forLeader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh

Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah (Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[5]

Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.[6] The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[6][7]

The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").[8]

See also

Notes

  1. Paul Gaffarel (1905). Histoire de l'expansion coloniale de la France depuis 1870 jusqu'en 1905. Barlatier. p. 19.
  2. Collection des ouvrages publiés par la Commission des publications et notices ... Barlatier. 1905. p. 19.
  3. Rachid Benyoub (2002). Algeria 2002 Political Directory: Illustrated. R. Benyoub. p. 21.
  4. Abder-Rahmane Derradji (2002). A Concise History of Political Violence in Algeria, 1954-2000: Brothers in Faith, Enemies in Arms. E. Mellen Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7734-7047-7.
  5. Aghrout 2005, p. 86.
  6. 1 2 Sivers 2012.
  7. Krause 2017, PT175.
  8. Armes 2005, p. 191.

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