Cheikh Bouamama
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah (Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[1]
Cheikh Bouamama | |
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| Born | 1833 Figuig, Morocco |
| Died | October 17, 1908 (aged 74–75) El Aioun Sidi Mellouk, Morocco |
| Known for | Leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh |
Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.[2] The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria and southeast of Morocco from 1881 to 1908 fell apart due to disagreements among the tribes.[3] When Cheikh Bouamama retreated to Morocco in 1882 the French conquest of the south of Algeria was complete.[2]
The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").[4]
See also
- Invasion of Algiers in 1830
- Abdelkader al-Jazairi
- Sherif Boubaghla
- Mokrani Revolt
- Algerian War
Notes
- Aghrout 2005, p. 86.
- Sivers 2012.
- Krause 2017, PT175.
- Armes 2005, p. 191.
References
- Aghrout, Ahmed (2005). "Algeria: Conquest and Resistance, 1831-1879". In Shillington, Kevin (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. 1. CRC Press. ISBN 1579582451.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Armes, Roy (2005). Postcolonial Images: Studies In North African Film. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21744-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Krause, Peter (2017-05-15), Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-1-5017-1266-1, retrieved 2017-09-24
- Sivers, Peter von (2012), "Algeria", Islamicus, retrieved 2017-09-24
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