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Mohamed Charef

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Mohamed Charef
Mohamed Charef
TitleMaliki Mufti
Other namesCheikh Charef
الشيخ شارف
Personal
Born
محمد بن عبد القادر شارف

1908 CE/1326 AH
Miliana,  Algeria
Died2011 CE/1432 AH
Casbah of Algiers, Mitidja,  Algeria
Resting placeEl Alia Cemetery
ReligionIslam, Algerian Islamic reference
NationalityAlgerian
Home townMiliana
School
Other namesCheikh Charef
الشيخ شارف
ProfessionHezzab, Imam, Khatib
Military service
OrderShadhiliyya Sufi order
Senior posting
Period in office1938-2011
ProfessionHezzab, Imam, Khatib

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Mohamed Charef (Arabic: محمد بن عبد القادر شارف‎ Mohamed Charef) (1908 CE/1326 AH – 2011 CE/1432 AH), was an Algerian Scholar, Imam and Sufi Sheikh.[1][2] He was born in a village near the town of Miliana 90 km south-west of Algiers.[3][4] He was raised in a very spiritual environment with high Islamic values and ethics.[5] He had great interpersonal skills and devoted his entire life in service of Islam and Algeria according to the Algerian Islamic reference.[6]

Family[edit]

Mohamed Charef was born in 1908 in the historic town of Miliana perched near the top of the Zaccar Mount in Dahra Range.[7][8]

His extended lineage is Mohamed ben Abdelkader ben El Hadj ben Abdelkader ben El Hadj al-Madani.[9][10]

His family is known for their illustrious ancestor Sidi Hamed Charef whose descendants, nicknamed the Houamed, lived between Théniet El Had and Ksar Boukhari near Médéa.[11][12]

Early life[edit]

Main article: Zawiyas in Algeria

The first years of Charef's education took place during the beginning of the 20th century in his native village under the spiritual authority of his family in the zawiya of his ancestors.[13]

His theological education began with the memorization of all 60 hizbs of the Quran under the authority of his father, Imam Abdelkader Charef.[14]

At the age of thirteen, his father died in 1921, leaving him an orphan, and this led him to leave his native village to settle in the district of Zougarra in the suburb of Miliana to continue his religious initiation.[15]

He then ratified a second Koranic memorization according to the Warsh recitation under the authority of Sheikh Ibn Sahada, and the third apprenticeship was done with Sheikh Ibn Sebaa, one of his late father's uncles.[16]

He then learned the basics of the Arabic language at Miliana according to the book, Al-Ajurrumiyya, under the authority of Sheikh Mohamed Ouekkad, was initiated into the Islamic faith (aqidah), and acquired the bases of jurisprudence (fiqh) according to the madhhab Maliki.[17]

Djamaa el Kebir[edit]

Djamaa el Kebir

After acquiring the necessary knowledge to assume the function of Imam, Charef headed to the city of Algiers in 1932 where he took a competitive examination for access to the religious affairs sector.[18][not in citation given]

His success in the oral examination and then in the written test allowed him to be accepted into the body of imams, and this is how he was initially appointed in the Djamaa el Kebir as a muezzin in 1936.[19]

His erudition and his eloquence did not take long to make him be requested by the various mosques of the Casbah of Algiers for religious talks and sermons in order to benefit the faithful from his vast knowledge.[20]

During the day, he assumed his official function of muezzin, and volunteered as Imam of the Maghrib prayer when he frequently went to the Djamaâ Sidi Ramdane where he taught until the Isha prayer that he also performed in congregation.[21]

Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema[edit]

Abdelhamid Ben Badis and Tayyeb El Oqbi.

Soon after his installation in Algiers, Charef began to frequent the talks that the new Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema was organizing in its headquarters of Nadi Taraqqi within the Algérois region.[22]

Indeed, the speakers who stood out in these dissertations were none other than Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi, Tayyeb El Oqbi among other members of the association who spread and disseminated the precepts of religious reform in Algeria.[23]

Charef was assiduous in his assistance to these progressive courses which amazed him due to their method, their subjects as well as by the eloquence of the preachers who were invited to them.[24][not in citation given]

His frequentation of scholars affiliated to this association, as well as his proximity to the muftis of Algiers, enabled him to continue his theological ascent in linguistic, religious and historical sciences under the patronage of the Algerian notabilities of the time.[25]

One of his characteristics was that he combined between learning from his teachers, and then transmitting this acquired knowledge to his own disciples and the common faithful in mosques and preaching circles.[26][not in citation given]

World War II[edit]

Main article: World War II

At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Sheikh Charef was forcibly drafted into French troops and was sent to the European front to fight the German forces that had invaded France.[27][28]

This coercive military engagement which was imposed on the Algerians resulted in the capture of Sheikh Charef by the German army and his imprisonment in a military camp from 1939 until 1944.[29][30]

Cheikh Charef was transferred to a French detention camp in 1945 before regaining his freedom and being released to return to Algeria.[31][not in citation given]

During his incarceration in German jails, he worked to preach religious precepts to other prisoners who knew the Arabic language, and he introduced non-Arabic speakers to the basics of this language necessary to understand Islam.[32][unreliable source?]

The acceptance of his speech by his fellow prisoners obliged him to use translators into the French language who relayed his words to the common of the imprisoned soldiers.[33]

Mosques of Algiers[edit]

After his return to Algeria from Europe in 1945 following the end of the Second World War, Cheikh Charef was appointed as muezzin in the Djamaa el Kebir.[34]

He was then promoted to the office of Imam in the Djamaâ Sidi Ramdane within the Upper Casbah, before being again designated as Imam in the Djamaa el Kebir in the Lower Casbah.[35]

After Algeria's independence in 1962, Charef took part in a competition organized by the Ministry of Religious Affairs to classify Imams according to their order of merit and intellectual and oratory competence.[citation needed]

And through the results of this meritorious ordeal, he was appointed as itinerant Imam Khatib in several mosques in the city of Algiers.[citation needed]

During his stay in the Algiers mosques, he accomplished his duties in the Ketchaoua Mosque, Sidi M'Hamed Mosque, Djamaa Ben farès, Safir Mosque while volunteering to preach the good word wherever the faithful invited him.[citation needed]

He was admitted to professional retirement at the age of 79, while he still held the post of Imam Khatib within Djamaa el Kebir.[citation needed]

When the Maliki mufti Ahmed Hammani [ar] died in 1998, Charef succeeded him in Algiers in this religious post.[36][37][38]


Books[edit]

Charef wrote several books during his life, including:

Printed[edit]

  • Fatwas of Sheikh Mohamed Charef (Arabic: فتاوى الشيخ محمد شارف‎).[39][40]
  • The rituals of Hajj and Umrah (Arabic: مناسك الحج والعمرة‎).[41]
  • The short and useful book on the rituals of Hajj and Umrah (Arabic: المختصر المفيد في مناسك الحج والعمرة‎).[42]
  • Honesty: its truth and its types (Arabic: الأمانة: حقيقتها وأنواعها‎).[43]
  • Lessons and principles in Arabic conjugation (Arabic: دروس ومبادئ في الصرف العربي‎).[44][45]
  • The languages of Arab tribes in the Holy Quran (Arabic: لغات قبائل العرب في القرآن الكريم‎).[46][47]

Manuscripts[edit]

  • A letter written in the hands and clenches of them in prayer (Arabic: رسالة في السدل والقبض في الصلاة‎).[48]
  • Minbar sermons (Arabic: الخطب المنبرية‎).[49]
  • Lessons in logic (Arabic: دروس في المنطق‎).[50]
  • Letter in Quranic readings (Arabic: رسالة في القراءات القرآنية‎).[51]
  • A prisoner's diary (Arabic: مذكرات أسير‎).[52]

Death[edit]

Charef died at dawn on January 6 2011 at his home in Birtouta at the age of 103.[53][54]

He was buried in the afternoon of the same day in the El Alia Cemetery in a solemn atmosphere, and his remains were placed in Dar al-Imam (Arabic: دار الإمام‎) in Mohammadia.[55][56]

Gallery[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Mohamed Charef (2002). فتاوى الشيخ محمد شارف. Jeddah: دار البلاغ للنشر والتوزيع. p. 368 pages. Search this book on

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