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Mustapha Cherif

مصطفى شريف

1950 CE · 1369 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Algerian philosopher and thinker (born 1950 in Miliana). Minister of universities (1990–1991) and Algeria's ambassador to Egypt (1994–2001), founder of the Groupe d'amitié islamo-chrétienne (1993) and a leading voice for dialogue among civilisations and religions; he received the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture in 2012.

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Roles: Philosopher · writer · academic
Region: Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
Identifiers: Wikidata

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari

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Born in: Miliana

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Mustapha Cherif — French Wikipedia
Mustapha Cherif — Arabic Wikipedia
Mustapha Cherif — Wikidata

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islam.museum contributors. “Mustapha Cherif”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mustapha-cherif/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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Miliana

A town in Algeria, which Ibn Battuta passed through on his way from the Maghrib.