Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)

The article studies a poem on the Mawlid composed in 1937 by Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis, founder of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama. In a “colonial situation” marked by threats of depersonalization, this date in the Hegirian calendar was seen by the head of Algeria’s Iṣlāḥ as an opportunit...

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Main Author: Sadek Sellam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2024-07-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/21178
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description The article studies a poem on the Mawlid composed in 1937 by Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis, founder of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama. In a “colonial situation” marked by threats of depersonalization, this date in the Hegirian calendar was seen by the head of Algeria’s Iṣlāḥ as an opportunity to call on Muslim youth to take the Prophet as their model and defend Algeria’s Arab-Islamic identity. His position on the celebration of the Mawlid shows the difference between Algerian Ulemas and Wahhabism in the definition of blameworthy innovations. Despite this, administrative Islamology passed them off as Wahhabis. To explain the motives of this discipline, a parallel is drawn between its political “truths” and the historical “truths” of impartial orientalism. Such a comparison would help us to better understand similar contemporary situations.
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spelling doaj-art-e50be02eb4484c1a97ea757bb30cc0fe2025-08-20T03:44:36ZengUniversité de ProvenceRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée0997-13272105-22712024-07-01155202413514210.4000/11z1iUn poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)Sadek SellamThe article studies a poem on the Mawlid composed in 1937 by Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis, founder of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama. In a “colonial situation” marked by threats of depersonalization, this date in the Hegirian calendar was seen by the head of Algeria’s Iṣlāḥ as an opportunity to call on Muslim youth to take the Prophet as their model and defend Algeria’s Arab-Islamic identity. His position on the celebration of the Mawlid shows the difference between Algerian Ulemas and Wahhabism in the definition of blameworthy innovations. Despite this, administrative Islamology passed them off as Wahhabis. To explain the motives of this discipline, a parallel is drawn between its political “truths” and the historical “truths” of impartial orientalism. Such a comparison would help us to better understand similar contemporary situations.https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/21178IslamAlgeriacolonisationnationalismMawlidulama
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Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Islam
Algeria
colonisation
nationalism
Mawlid
ulama
title Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)
title_full Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)
title_fullStr Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)
title_full_unstemmed Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)
title_short Un poème du cheikh Ben Badis sur le Mawlid (1937)
title_sort un poeme du cheikh ben badis sur le mawlid 1937
topic Islam
Algeria
colonisation
nationalism
Mawlid
ulama
url https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/21178
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