The Mawqif of Emir Abd Al Qadir (of Algeria)
Abd Al Qadir Al Djazairi was a military leader, a scholar of Islam and a 'Sufi' spiritual master. He fought the French colonial armies of Napoleon in Algeria, defeating every Army he encountered for 15 years until a betrayal saw him captured and sent to a French Prison. 250 of the French prison guards converted to Islam while watching over him as a prisoner. A town in Iowa, USA was named after him after he saved 100+ Armenian Christian's from riots in Ottoman lands. He shares a Busqe with the founder of the Red Cross in their main building in Switzerland, because the international rules of conduct in war drew largely from his conduct against the invading French, which he himself attributed to the Sharia and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad.
