Sheikh Abbas
Abbas el Hocine Bencheikh called Sheikh Abbas (1912, in Mila
Great Mosque of Paris
.
After theological studies in family brotherhood and once aged 21, Sheikh Abbas studied at the Islamic University of Zaytuna in Tunis and that of al-Qarawiyyin in
Great Mosque of Paris, succeeding Sheikh Hamza Boubakeur. He restructured the mosque by creating a second prayer room and putting in place additional social services.[citation needed
]
He allowed the mosque to receive a share of a specific budget from the Department of Endowments of Algeria and secondly to develop a body of 80 imams.[1]
He intervened to resolve the painful issue of divorce between binational families, especially in defending the rights of French mothers whose children had been brought in Algeria after the divorce. He also interjected to facilitate the return of many French-Muslims (
Harkis) who had left the Algeria since independence in 1962 and stay there instead.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ Abbas Bencheikh, official website of the Paris mosque
See also
- Soheib Bencheikh
- Hamza Boubakeur
- The Great Mosque of Paris
- Abdelhamid Ben Badis
- Islam in France
