THREAD: Sheikh Umar al-Mukhtar / Lion of the Desert

It’s been 91 years today since Sheikh Umar al-Mukhtar was publicly hanged by Italian colonial forces.

Italian General, Rodolfo Graziani, confronted Umar al-Mukhtar 160 times during 18 months of Italian occupation of #Libya. General Graziani was so desperate because all of the measures he had taken proven to be unsuccessful in stopping the resistance led by Sheikh Umar al-Mukhtar.

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

#Uyghur scholar and author Sheikh Muhammad Qasim Amin al-Turkistani passed away at the age of 93 in Saudi Arabia.

#Uyghurs #SaudiArabia Born in 1927 in #Kashgar city of East Turkestan. He completed his primary education and then immigrated to Makkah in 1950 where joined Al-Falah schools in Makkah and classes at Masjid al-Haram. He worked in Jeddah Radio & he used to write for Saudi newspapers of Al-Bilad & Okaz.

Skull No. 5942

#France returned the skulls of 24 #Algeria|ns decapitated while fighting French colonialists over 170 years ago.

One of the skulls returned was Sheikh Moussa Al-Derkaoui. Sheikh Moussa was an Egyptian, a student of Sheikh Muhammad bin Hamza Dhafir al-Madani. Sheikh Moussa settled in central #Algeria in 1829 and joined the colonial resistance. He fought alongside Sheikh Bouziane who led the colonial resistance during the 1849 battle of Zaatcha, a village in northern #Algeria.