Cheikh Bouamama

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
Born	1841[1][2] Figuig, Morocco
Died	October 7, 1908(1908-10-07) (aged 66–67)[3][4]
Known for	Leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh

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]

See also

• Invasion of Algiers in 1830
• Abdelkader al-Jazairi
• Sherif Boubaghla
• Mokrani Revolt
• Algerian War
• Massacre of Saïda (1881)

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

References

• Aghrout, Ahmed (2005). "Algeria: Conquest and Resistance, 1831-1879". In Shillington, Kevin (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Vol. 1. CRC Press. ISBN 1579582451.
• Armes, Roy (2005). Postcolonial Images: Studies In North African Film. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21744-8.
• Krause, Peter (2017-05-15), Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-1-5017-1266-1, retrieved 2017-09-24
• Sivers, Peter von (2012), "Algeria", Islamicus, retrieved 2017-09-24