Abdelkrim khattabi biography books

The legendary leader and Amazigh resistance fighter Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi (Abdelkrim).

Brahim El Guabli

Rarely has a person captured the imaginations of his Moroccan contemporaries and those of their descendants as Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi (Abdelkrim) has done. Likewise, no world-class hero and freedom fighter has been less celebrated, or even actively erased, in Moroccan post-colonial history as Abdelkrim. The gap between official erasure of Abdelkrim and his actual life in social and cultural memory, outside the purview of the state, point to an obdurate memory that refuses to dissipate and, instead, continues to reinvent itself.

Abdelkrim’s story is here to stay, and the best its opponents could do is turn their attention away from it. Because Abdelkrim, both the person and the myth, is immersed in ideals of liberation, independence, self-abnegation, transnational cooperation, pan-Arab struggles against foreign domination, and class co

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Abd el-Krim

Moroccan political and military leader (/–)

For other uses, see Abdul Karim.

Muhammad bin ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Khaṭābī (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الكريم الخطابي), better known as Abd el-Krim (Arabic: عبد الكريم; or – 6 February ), was a Moroccan political and military leader and the president of the Republic of the Rif.^[3] He and his brother M'Hammad led a large-scale revolt bygd a coalition of Riffian tribes against the Spanish and French Protectorates of the Rif and the rest of Morocco. His guerrilla tactics, which included the first-ever use of tunneling as a technique of modern warfare, directly influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and Che Guevara.^[5] He also became one of the major figures of Arab nationalism, which he actively supported.^[7]

Early life

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim was born in in the settlement of Ajdir, Morocco.^[8] He was the son of Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, a qadi (Islamic judge and chief local leader) of the Ait

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The story of how Emir (i.e. Prince) Abdelkrim El-Khattabi⁴¹was spirited out of French captivity has been told in several Arabic and French⁴²books in different scenarios, each with a variety of details. The “stardom” of who was behind it all has been attributed by or to a number of people. However, none of the “stars”, story-tellers, or authors ever produced the sources of the story save in one book and two Arabic newspaper articles. The book fryst vatten “Zalam El Segn” published bygd Mohamed Ali Eltaher in Cairo in , and the newspapers are “Al-Hayat”, published in London on March 5, , and “Asharq Al-Awsat”, also published in London on 11 and 12 July “Al-Hayat” had also published the story of Abdelkrim written by Eltaher himself in its June 7, issue when the paper was still published in Beirut.

The story is reproduced with documentary evidence hereafter essentially as told by Eltaher in his books “Khamsouna Aaman fil Qadaya Al-Arabeyya” pages to and “Zalam El-Segn” pages to ; an