Zawiyet El Hamel

Zawiyet El Hamel (Arabic: زاوية الهامل القاسمية) or Zawiyet Sidi El Qasimi is a zawiya located in the city of El Hamel within M'Sila Province in Algeria, and exercises its educational activity according to the Algerian Islamic reference under the supervision of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments.[1][2]

This article is about Hamel. For other uses, see Hamel.
Zawiyet El Hamel
زاوية الهامل
Zawiyet El Hamel
Other name
زاوية سيدي بلقاسم الهاملي
Former name
الزاوية الرحمانية القاسمية
TypeZawiya
Established1861 CE / 1277 AH
FounderSidi Mohamed ben Belkacem
AffiliationMinistry of Religious Affairs and Endowments
Religious affiliation
Address
El Hamel
,
Bou Saâda District
,
M'Sila Province, Hodna
,
28015
,
Algeria

35.1321292°N 4.08378°E / 35.1321292; 4.08378
LanguageArabic
Part of a series on
Algerian Islamic reference
Institutions
  • Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments
  • Algerian high islamic council
  • Algerian fiqh academy
  • Algerian scientific council of fatwa
  • Algerian forum of maliki fiqh
  • National Union of Algerian Zawiyas
  • Dar al-Imam
  • Dar al-Quran
  • Quranic readings institute
  • National Agency for the implementation and management of Djamaa el Djazaïr
  • National crescent control committee
  • National office for Hajj and Umrah
Islam in Algeria
Quran in Algeria
Sunnism in Algeria
Ash'arism in Algeria
Malikism in Algeria
Sufism in Algeria
Celebrations
Sufi Orders
Zawiyas of Algeria
Cult

Construction

The Zawiya El Qassimiyya was built in 1861 in the current town of El Hamel within the Hodna region, southwest of the town of Bou Saada, and is affiliated with the Rahmaniyya tariqa arising from the Khalwatiyya rite.[3][4][5]

The founder of this Sufi school is the great scholar Sidi Mohamed ibn Belkacem, who established this zawiya of education, which served as a beacon for the people of the Hodna Mountains region, and its scientific and light rays extend to the outskirts of the homeland.[6][7][8]

Influence

In 1912, this zaouia was the seat of the Rahmaniyya tariqa which then had 43,000 murids and which oversaw 29 secondary zawiyas, like Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif, Zawiyet Sidi Boumerdassi and Zawiyet Sidi Boushaki.[9][10][11]

In 1897, it still supervised the two zaouias of Ouled Djellal and Aïn Bou Medjeldel, whose Sheikhs were renowned and valuable Sufi personalities.[12][13]

Muqaddams

Several Sheikhs and muqaddams have succeeded in managing this zouia since its foundation in 1861.[14]

Muqaddams of Zawiyet El Hamel
# Muqaddam From To
01 Cheikh El Qasimi[15] 1861 1897
02 Lalla Zaynab[16] 1897 1904
03 Mohamed El Qasimi 1904 1913
04 Mokhtar El Qasimi[17] 1913 1915
05 Belkacem El Qasimi 1915 1927
06 Ahmed El Qasimi 1927 1928
07 Mostafa El Qasimi 1928 1970
08 Hassan El Qasimi 1970 1987
09 Khalil El Qasimi 1987 1994
10 Mamoun El Qasimi 1994 2022

Library

This zawiya houses a library whose documentary fund includes hundreds of unpublished manuscripts of theological and scientific works, as well as a multitude of titles of mystical and profane subjects.[18][19]

The linguist and orientalist René Basset (1855-1924) had published in 1897 a catalog of the library of the Zawiyet El Hamel where he listed the series of manuscripts preserved there.[20][21]

This publication was titled The Arabic Manuscripts of the Zaouia of El Hamel (French: Les Manuscrits arabes de la Zaouia d'El Hamel), and established in its 57 pages a descriptive inventory of 53 manuscripts in which he reported the abundant and reliable bibliographical annotations that accompany them, while listing the comments made on them.[22][23]

Indeed, Basset had originally published this work as an opuscule in the Journal of the Italian Asian Society (French: Journal de la Société asiatique italienne) in 1896, in which he described a small collection of manuscripts preserved in this zawiya, almost all relating to the tafsir of the Quran, to the biography and the hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad and the Study of fiqh.[24][25]

Teachings

From its foundation in 1861, this zawiya was supervised by several tolbas who taught many students and murids under the supervision of Sheikh El Qasimi.[26]

This number of students quickly reached 400 who studied the Quran, Arabic grammar, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, prosody and Ash'ari aqidah with Maliki fiqh according to the Algerian Islamic reference and Sunni Islam.[27]

Location

The spiritual radiance of this zawiya spreads in the Hodna region in its periphery at the center of several municipalities and national highways.[28][29]

Tamsa, RN46 Ouled Sidi Brahim, RN46 Bou Saâda, RN8
Ouled Atia, RN46 N Oultene, RN89
W    Zawiyet El Hamel    E
S
Medjedel, RN46 Djebel Messaad, RN89 Mohammed Boudiaf, RN70
Enclave : El Hamel

Notable people

See also

Further reading
  • Louis Rinn (1884). Marabouts et Khouan: étude sur l'Islam en Algérie. Algiers: Libraire-Éditeur Adolphe Jourdan. pp. 552 (460–480).

References
  1. "Revue d'École d'Anthropologie de Paris". 1908.
  2. Doutté, Edmond (1900). "L'Islâm algérien en l'an 1900".
  3. Depont, Octave; Coppolani, Xavier (1897). "Les confréries religieuses musulmanes".
  4. "Bulletin". 1906.
  5. "Bulletin provisoire". 1906.
  6. Rinn, Louis (1884). "Marabouts et Khouan: étude sur l'Islam en Algérie".
  7. "Monographie de l'Aurès". 1904.
  8. Slyomovics, Susan (5 November 2013). The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib. ISBN 9781135281267.
  9. Randau, Robert (1912). "L'Islam et la politique musulmane française en Afrique Occidentale Française".
  10. "L'Afrique française: Bulletin mensuel du Comité l'Afrique française et du Comité du Maroc". 1897.
  11. "Revue des traditions populaires". 1896.
  12. "Le Mouvement antiesclavagiste". 1897.
  13. "Bulletin". 1897.
  14. Robert, Achille (1900). "L'Arabe tel qu'll est: études algériennes & tunisiennes".
  15. Mémoires histoire des déplacements forcés: Héritages et legs (XIXe-XXIe siècles). December 2013. ISBN 9782336331874.
  16. Eudel, Paul (1902). "L'Orfévrerie algérienne et tunisienne".
  17. https://books.google.dz/books?id=yhdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA215
  18. https://books.google.dz/books?id=5sIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41
  19. https://books.google.dz/books?id=hZBQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA4
  20. https://books.google.dz/books?id=tIA3Fxx15oYC&pg=PA362
  21. https://books.google.dz/books?id=6vwnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR13
  22. https://books.google.dz/books?id=SvwQzQEACAAJ
  23. https://books.google.dz/books?id=8v1fmQEACAAJ
  24. https://books.google.dz/books?id=daUYzzeRYh4C&pg=PA531
  25. https://books.google.dz/books?id=rv2RdQHinQkC&pg=PA57
  26. https://books.google.dz/books?id=IXcoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA120
  27. https://books.google.dz/books?id=do5LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA91
  28. "Zawiya of el Hamel · 43JM+VG2, el Hamel, Algeria".
  29. http://wikimapia.org/8588097
  30. https://books.google.dz/books?id=kzw1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA316
  31. https://books.google.dz/books?id=B3qIDAEACAAJ
  32. https://books.google.dz/books?id=EYjQtnrURPAC&pg=PA68
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