Dr. Abbassi Madani (Arabic عباسي مدني), born 1931, was the President of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria. 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... The Islamic Salvation Front (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh) (French: Front Islamique du Salut) is an outlawed Islamist political party in Algeria. ...

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 Boumedienne 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. Biskra is a city in Biskra province, Algeria Extern Link: http://www. ... The National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale, Arabic: Jabhah al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī) is a socialist political party in Algeria. ... The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists, or the colons as they were called, in Algeria and the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) and other pro-independence... The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France. ... Map of Algeria showing Algiers province Algiers (French Alger, (Arabic: ولاية الجزائر) El-Jazair, The Islands) is the capital and largest city of Algeria in North Africa. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden, home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The Islamic Salvation Front (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh) (French: Front Islamique du Salut) is an outlawed Islamist political party in Algeria. ... Ali Belhadj (Arabic علي بن الحاجبلحاج) was the Vice-President of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria. ... Combatants Algerian government Islamic Armed Movement (MIA) Armed Islamic Group (GIA) Islamic Salvation Army (AIS) others. ... In justice and law, house arrest is the situation where a person is confined (by the authorities) to his or her residence. ...

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. Ali Belhadj (Arabic علي بن الحاجبلحاج) was the Vice-President of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria. ... Sharia (Arabic: ; also Sharīah, Sharia, Shariah or Syariah) is the Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah, and governs both public and private lives of those living in an Islamic state. ... Sharia (Arabic: ; also Sharīah, Sharia, Shariah or Syariah) is the Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah, and governs both public and private lives of those living in an Islamic state. ...

External links

• Al Jazeera profile

Bibliography

• M. Al-Ahnaf, B. Botiveau, F. Fregosi (1991). L'Algerie par ses islamistes, Paris: Karthala. ISBN 28653673185.