Information AboutAbbassi Madani |
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| 1931 births | |
| madani, abbassi | |
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| algerian politicians | |
| arab people | |
| muslim politicians | |
| algerian people | |
| islam in algeria | |
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Dr Madani was born in Sidi-Okba , near Biskra , in 1931. In his youth he joined the Front For National Liberation and participated in the first day of the Algerian War Of Independence , 1 November 1954, by planting a bomb at an ORTF building in Algiers , but was jailed by the French only sixteen days later, and remained in jail until independence in 1962 . In 1963 , he joined the El Qiyam association for Islamic values, dissolved by Houari Boumédienne three years later. He spent much of the 1970s studying at the University Of London , and on his return became a professor of educational sociology at the University Of Algiers . He was arrested in 1982 for signing a petition to the government, and was imprisoned without trial until 1984. In 1989, after the Algerian Constitution was changed to allow multiparty democracy, he co-founded the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), which rapidly grew to enjoy success in the ensuing local elections. In 1991, soon after FIS had finished a strike and massive demonstrations in Algiers, he and his second-in-command Ali Belhadj were arrested and jailed on charges of threatening state security. In late 1991, FIS won the first round of parliamentary elections, which were then called off by the military, who banned FIS; he remained in jail throughout most of the Algerian Civil War that followed, until 1997, when he was released from jail and placed under House Arrest . In 2003, having served his 12-year term, he was released from house arrest and banned for life from all political activity. Since then, he has been living in Qatar . Politically, he was widely considered to represent the moderate wing of FIS, contrasted with Ali Belhadj 's more hardline views. His positions included free markets, early Islamic education, Arabization of education and government, segregation of the sexes, and Sharia -based law. He expressed support for democracy, but with the reservation that it could not override Sharia law. EXTERNAL LINKS BIBLIOGRAPHY |