Tayeb El Okbi

الطيب العقبي (Known as "El Okbi")

Islamic Reformer, Journalist, Advocate of Interreligious Dialogue

Born Jan 20, 1890

Biskra, Algeria

Passed Away May 21, 1960 Algiers, Algeria

Lifespan 70 years old

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"Free your minds from shackles; religion is light, dignity, and intellectual courage."

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Charismatic reformist theologian, journalist, and orator who headed the Association of Ulema in Algiers and championed rationalist reform and interreligious dialogue.

Biographical Record

Tayeb El Okbi spent his youth in the Hijaz where he edited the official Mecca gazette Al-Qibla before returning to Biskra in 1920. Moving to Algiers, he led the Nadi al-Taraqqi (Progress Club), drawing thousands to his fiery reformist lectures against superstition and colonial fatalism.

Wrongfully implicated and imprisoned in 1936 by colonial authorities for the murder of the pro-French Mufti Kahoul, his acquittal turned into a massive popular triumph for the Algerian civil rights movement.

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Final Resting Place

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Sidi M'hamed Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria

                         GPS: 36.7538, 3.0588                    

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