[From the French language press]:Evocation: Mehdi Bouabdelli, un érudit de l’Algérie moderne
El Watan, Algeria - mercredi 6 juin 2006 – par Djamel Benachour
Mehdi Bouabdelli, a scholar from modern Algeria
A commemoration of Mehdi Bouabdelli (1907 -1992) born in a family whose lineage goes back to a Saint from Oued Rhiou, the Sufi Sidi Bouabdellah el Moughawfal (known also as Sheykh Iekbir), whose tariqa goes back to the Hafsid dynasty (1229 -1574 CE).
His whole work was dedicated to the knowledge and research of the Algerian and, by extension, Maghrebian personality while unearthing manuscripts of works of the past fallen in the collective lapse of memory.
After independence, he put his phenomenal knowledge at service of the Research Centre while taking part in several seminars worldwide and while contributing to the National Center for Historical Studies.
He published «Taghr el djouman fi ibtissam etaghr el wahrani » by Ahmed Ben Mohamed Errachidi (end of 18th century) in 1973 and « Dalil el hayran oua anis essahran fi madinet wahran» by Mohamed Benyoucef Ziani in 1978.
Mehdi Bouabdelli received a PhD Honoris causa from Oran University shortly before passing away.
What is required now is to enhance the library which he left.
[picture: Habibas Islands (Oran)
http://www.visitoran.com/photos/gallery.asp?id=habibas]
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