Mahfoud Kaddache
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Mahfoud Kaddache 🇩🇿

محفوظ قداش (Known as "Mahfoud Kaddache")
Pioneering Historian of Algerian Nationalism, Professor, Author of 'Histoire du nationalisme algérien'
Born 1921 🇩🇿 Casbah of Algiers, Algeria
Passed Away Jul 30, 2006 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 85 years old
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The foremost academic historian of the Algerian National Movement, whose monumental two-volume study 'Histoire du nationalisme algérien' is the bedrock text on the rise of the revolution.

Biographical Record

Mahfoud Kaddache was born in the Casbah of Algiers and was an early leader in the Muslim Scouts of Algeria (SMA) and the Algerian People's Party. He completed his doctorate in history at the Sorbonne, dedicating his academic career to training generations of Algerian researchers at the University of Algiers.

His two-volume monumental work 'Histoire du nationalisme algérien (1919–1951)' is universally acclaimed by international scholars as the authoritative, documentary foundation of modern Algerian political historiography. He also authored essential books on the history of Algiers, Berber antiquity, and the popular insurrections of the 19th century.

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Sidi M'hamed Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7519, 3.0617
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