At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer · teacher
- Region
- Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
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Summary
Birth and education
He was born on 13 June 1889 — 14 Shawwal 1306 AH — at Ouled Brahim, and began his education with his father and uncle, memorising the Qur'an and studying some texts of Maliki jurisprudence.13 In 1911 he joined his family in Medina, where he studied the Muwatta and Maliki jurisprudence under Abdelaziz al-Tounissi and Sahih Muslim under Hussain Ahmed Madani.12 Driven from the Hejaz by the unrest of the Arab Revolt, he moved to Damascus in 1916, taught there, and in 1919 took part in founding the Arab Academy of Damascus with Muhammad Kurd Ali.13
The reform movement
Returning to Algeria in 1920, he spread reform and religious education at Setif, running a mosque independent of the colonial administration.1 In 1924 Ben Badis proposed to him the creation of an association of scholars; when the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama was founded in 1931 El Ibrahimi became its vice-president, and he carried its mission to western Algeria, founding free schools in Oran and Tlemcen against the hostility of notables and of Sufi orders.13 Exiled to Aflou in 1939 for an anti-colonial article, he was elected the Association's president on Ben Badis's death in 1940 while still under house arrest; arrested again after the events of May 1945 and released a year later, he resumed writing his celebrated editorials in al-Basa'ir.12
After independence
After independence in 1962 he served as imam and khatib of the Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers, but, opposed to Ben Bella's socialist self-management regime, he was again placed under house arrest, and died in that situation at Setif on 20 May 1965.12 His collected works were published by his son Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi in five volumes as the Athar of Imam Muhammad al-Bashir al-Ibrahimi.3
References
Connections
- Died in
- Setif
People and things also explored
Sources
- Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi — English Wikipedia
- Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi — French Wikipedia
- Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi — Arabic Wikipedia
- Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi — Wikidata Q3318383
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mohamed-bachir-el-ibrahimi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.