The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Algeria
This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 2 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 86th most number of Religious Figures behind Palestine and Yemen.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Algerian Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Saint Monica (332 - 387)
With an HPI of 69.32, Saint Monica is the most famous Algerian Religious Figure. Her biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Monica (c. 332 – 387) was an early North African Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding Christian virtues, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's adultery, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of her pious acts and life with her in his Confessions. Popular Christian legends recall Monica weeping every night for her son Augustine.
2. Abdelhamid Ben Badis (1889 - 1940)
With an HPI of 53.51, Abdelhamid Ben Badis is the 2nd most famous Algerian Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Abd al-Hamīd ibn Mustafa ibn Makki ibn Badis (Arabic: عبد الحميد بن مصطفى بن المكي بن باديس), better known as ابن باديس (Arabic: عبد الحميد بن باديس (December 4, 1889 – April 16, 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.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as religious figures born between 332 and 1889. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased religious figures include Saint Monica and Abdelhamid Ben Badis. As of April 2022, 1 new religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Abdelhamid Ben Badis.
