ABD EL-KADER [Mascara, 1807 - Damascus, 1883], Arab emir of - Lot 94

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ABD EL-KADER [Mascara, 1807 - Damascus, 1883], Arab emir of - Lot 94
ABD EL-KADER [Mascara, 1807 - Damascus, 1883], Arab emir of Algeria, writer, poet, philosopher, military resistance fighter, politician and Sufi theologian, founder of the Algerian state. Autograph letter signed. Château d'Amboise, October 1, 1849; 1/2 page on large folio, in Arabic, with translation below. Message from his detention at Amboise, where the French held him prisoner, certified autograph by Captain Boissonnet, commander of the château. The Emir asks "Monsieur André, Receveur d'Indre et Loire, to kindly pay M. Seillion [...] the sum of three hundred francs for drugstore supplies to his Khalifas and relatives, Si Kaddour and Si Abd abd-el-Kader-ben-Nasser". With translation into Arabic by the military interpreter attached to the château.
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