Kaddour Benghabrit

قدور بن غبريط

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Algerian scholar and high official (1868-1954) who served France as interpreter and diplomat and the Sultan of Morocco as head of protocol; he founded the Muslim Institute of the Grand Mosque of Paris and was its first rector (1926-1954), and during the Second World War sheltered Jews at the mosque and issued them Muslim identity certificates.

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Roles
theologian · Diplomat · Translator
Region
Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
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Life in time

18251850187519001925195019752000
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi · Evelyn Cobbold · Edhem Mulabdić · Tahir Jalaluddin · Abdul Haq

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    Sources

    • Si Kaddour Benghabrit — English Wikipedia
    • Kaddour Benghabrit — French Wikipedia
    • Kaddour Benghabrit — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Kaddour Benghabrit — Wikidata Q3482807
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    islam.museum contributors. “Kaddour Benghabrit”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kaddour-benghabrit/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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