Hamza Boubakeur
Hamza Boubakeur was a French politician and religious Muslim who was born in 15 June 1912, in Geryville and was death in 1995. He was president of the Great Mosque of Paris, replacing Si Kaddour Benghabrit in 1957 to join Sheikh Abbas Bencheikh el Hocine in 1982. Hamza Boubakeur is the author of a French translation of the Quran. He is also the father of Dalil Boubakeur.
Hamza Boubakeur was a member of Department of Oasis in the first legislature of the French Fifth Republic from 1958 to 1962. He ran for an PM position in 1983 but without success.
After his death, he was buried in the sand in the middle of the Sahara in 1995.
See also
- Sheikh Abbas Bencheikh el Hocine
- The Great Mosque of Paris