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Article Excerpt
Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader, A Story of True Jihad, by John W. Kiser. Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2008. 361 pages. $28.95.
A 19th century Arab who has a town in rural Iowa named after him; a man who received written thanks from Abraham Lincoln; a man who was nominated for the position of President of France: Abd el-Kader was truly an amazing man. Yet more amazingly, he is today largely unknown to the world outside of North Africa and France.
John Kiser seeks to fill that void with an interesting and readable biography of the man. It's a timely biography, too, as Abd el-Kader also stands as one of the first modern Arab leaders to use the call to jihad to fight off Western imperialism with views of a wider pan-Islamism.
Abd el-Kader, Kiser tells us, was born into a family of holy men--marabouts of the Qadirriyah Sufi order--in rural Algeria. He became many things: a religious scholar, the...
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