The US film director Oliver Stone announced the pending production of a filmed biopic called The Emir Abd el-Kader, to be directed by Charles Burnett
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Abdelkader El Djezairi
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Arab Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers from 1831 to 1847.
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science · Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883) · politician · soldier · mujahid · scientist · resistance fighter · poet · writer · theologian · Amir · also Abdelkader El Djezairi, Emir Abdelkader, Emīr ʿAbd al-Qādir, Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine, Abd-el-Kadir, Djezairi
Born 6 September 1808 · Died 26 May 1883 · Q179825
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شجرة دردار التي تمت تحتها مبايعة الأمير عبد القادر الجزائري (1832)
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By Bashar al-Assad’s security forces, sentenced to death by a military court on charges of opposing the regime, and imprisoned at Sednaya Prison, where he was executed in 2015
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1992· 1 entry
A square in Paris (5th arrondissement) and Lyon (7th arrondissement),
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1965· 1 entry
In an effort to strengthen national unity, the Algerian authorities asked the Emir’s descendants for permission to repatriate his remains
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1892· 1 entry
And died in Bou Saâda in 1900, leaving two sons, one of whom, Khaled, would play an important political role in Algeria
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1883· 1 entry
Died 1883-05-26.
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1867· 1 entry
On the occasion of the Paris Exposition, he returned to France at the invitation of Napoleon III
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1865· 1 entry
Travelled to Constantinople, London and Paris
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1860· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1860).
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His intervention to halt the massacre of the Christian community in Damascus earned him honours and awards from several countries
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Pays off his moral debt to the Emperor by becoming Providence for the Christians of Syria / France, which he had fought against, loves and admires him
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1858· 1 entry
Then retranslated into French in 1977 under the title Lettre aux Français (Letter to the French)
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1847· 1 entry
Was detained in France for almost five years before being released by Napoleon III and taken to Bursa
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1843· 1 entry
French Marshal General Soult declared that of all the men of his time whom he had known or heard of, Abdelkader was one of the three greatest; the two others, Imam Shamil and Muhammad Ali of Egypt are also Muslims, he po
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1842· 1 entry
Besieged on all sides and with his financial resources at an all-time low, he saw many of his followers forced, often for the sake of their survival, to submit to the French
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1835· 1 entry
Also failed and was followed by an appeal to the French by the Kouloughli garrison, which led to the first French occupation of the city (January 1836)
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1832· 1 entry
Career landmark: Amir (1832–1847).
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1830· 2 entries
Election won: 1830–1833: French invasion, election of Abdelkader.
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Campaign: 1830–1833: French invasion, election of Abdelkader.
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1827· 1 entry
And, that same year, married his cousin Kheira bint Boutaleb
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1825· 1 entry
Set out on the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, with his father
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1808· 1 entry
Born 1808-09-06.
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