Omar Mukhtar

Omar Mukhtar

Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī (Arabic: عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was also a prominent figure of the Senussi movement, and he is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the arab world and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and, for nearly twenty years, led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the Pacification of Libya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar Mukhtar has received more than 743,792 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Omar Mukhtar is the 27th most popular social activist (up from 38th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Libya (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Social Activist.

Omar Mukhtar is most famous for his role in the Libyan resistance against the Italian invasion of Libya.