Ali Belhadj (Arabic علي بن الحاجبلحاج) was the Vice-President of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria. 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 was born in 1956 in Tunis to parents from the wilaya of Adrar in Algeria. He became a teacher of Arabic and became an Islamist activist in the 1970s. He was imprisoned from 1983 to 1987. In 1989, after the Algerian Constitution was changed to allow multiparty democracy, he helped found the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), which rapidly grew to enjoy success in the ensuing local elections. During this period, he was a preacher at the Al-Sunna mosque in Bab el-Oued, a working-class neighborhood of Algiers. In 1991, soon after FIS had finished a strike and massive demonstrations in Algiers, he, along with FIS president Abbassi Madani, was 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, and was released after serving a 12-year sentence in 2003 under the condition of abstaining from all political activity. He did not remain free for long; in July 2005, he was arrested for making a statement on Al-Jazeera which praised the Iraqi insurgents and condemned Algeria for sending diplomats to Iraq shortly after two Algerian diplomats (Ali Belaroussi and Azzedine Belkadi) had been kidnapped[1]. He was released[2] just under a year later in March 2006, under the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation. A wilaya is an administrative subdivision of several countries, including Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, and Oman. ... Adrar is a province of southwestern Algeria. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... 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. ... 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. ... Dr. Abbassi Madani began his political career as an activist in the 1950s during Algerias war for independence. ... The Algerian Civil War was an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups which began in 1991. ... Al Jazeera Logo Al Jazeera (Arabic: ), meaning The Island or The Peninsula is an Arabic-language television channel based in Doha, Qatar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation was a referendum proposed on September 29, 2005 by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in an attempt to bring closure to the Algerian Civil War. ...

Representing a relatively hard-line Salafist wing of FIS, he was against women working and condemned democracy as a Western innovation, while emphasizing the importance of Islamic education. He described his favorite authors as Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim, as well as the more recent Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb. A Salafi (Arabic سلفي lit. ... Abu al-Abbas Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Salaam ibn Abdullah ibn Taymiya al-Harrani, was a jurist, reformer, preacher, scholar, exegete of Islam. ... Ibn al-Qayyim is the salafi Imam of Ahl Al-Sunna Wal-Jamaa, the haafidh (preserver of hadith), the scholar of tafseer (Quranic exegesis), usool (fundamentals of jurisprudence and law) and Fiqh (jurisprudence), Aboo ’Abdullaah Shamsud-Deen Muhammad Ibn Abee Bakr - better known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (or... Imam Hassan al Banna (October 14, 1906 - February 12, 1949) was an Egyptian Islamist best known as founder of the Muslim Brotherhood or Ikhwan ul Muslimeen or al-Ikhwan. ... Sayyid Qutb Sayyid Qutb (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian intellectual, author, and Islamist associated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. ...

Bibliography

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