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  • 10 Dinars 1994, KM# 135, Algeria, Famous People, Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis
  • 10 Dinars 1994, KM# 135, Algeria, Famous People, Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis
Description

Abd al-Hamīd ibn Mustafa ibn Makki ibn Badis (1889–1940) was an Algerian educator, exegete, Islamic reformer, scholar and figurehead of cultural nationalism. In 1931, Ben Badis founded the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema, which was a national grouping of many Islamic scholars in Algeria from many different and sometimes opposing perspectives and viewpoints. The Association would have later a great influence on Algerian Muslim politics up to the Algerian War of Independence. In the same period, it set up many institutions where thousands of Algerian children of Muslim parents were educated. The Association also published a monthly journal, the Al-Chihab and Souheil Ben Badis contributed regularly to it between 1925 and his death in 1940. The journal informed its readers about the Association's ideas and thoughts on religious reform and spoke on other religious and political issues.

Obverse

Depicts a portrait of Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis three-quarters left wearing white Gandoura, his name above in Arabic, date of his birth and death in Islamic and Gregorian calendars on both sides.

عبد الحميد بن باديس
1889 1307
1940 1359
هـ م

Reverse

Depicts the facial value in the middle surrounded by the Arabic inscription "Bank of Algeria" above and silver dinars below. Figure 10 design refers to an epigraphic pattern from the Merinide era, issue dates in the Islamic and the Gregorian calendars on both sides.

بنك الجزائر
1994 1415
هـ م
10
دنانير فضية

Edge

10 Dinars

Famous People
Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis

Subscribe series
KM# 135 Schön# 46
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Silver
Fineness 0.835
Weight 14.6 g
Diameter 31.5 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin

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