Cheikh Bouamama
Born1841[1][2]
Figuig
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]

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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. ^ a b Sivers 2012.
  7. ^ Krause 2017, PT175.
  8. ^ Armes 2005, p. 191.

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