The Biography of the Emir 'Ali b. al-amir 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri: from Damascus to Libya (1911).

In the frame of the subject proposed for this 27th UEAI Congress, I have decided to deal with the presence of maghāriba in the city of Damascus during the late 19th and the early 20th century, which is what I have been focusing for some years.1 In particular, I would like to deal with the system of relationships, contacts and mutual interactions between Maghrib and Mashriq in the late Ottoman period,2 through the biography of the Algerian Emir ʿAlī b. al-amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī, who is considered zaʿīm min zuʿamāʾ al-islām wa raʾīs min ruʾasāʾihi for the resistance that he opposed to the Italian aggression against Libya in 1911 (al-ḥarb al-ṭarābulusiyya ṣafḥa min ḥayāt al-buṭūla wa-l-sharaf).