Messali Hadj — French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia article on Messali Hadj; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth at Tlemcen on 16 May 1898 and death at Gouvieux (Oise) on 3 June 1974, records that as a boy he was a pupil at the madrasa of the Derkaoua zaouïa of Cheikh Benyelles and kept frequenting the zaouïa as a young man, and that his maternal grandfather was a qadi and member of the Derkaoua confrérie. Its infobox gives his religion as 'Islam'.