al-Khaṭṭābī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Goikolea-Amiano, Itzea
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khaṭṭābī (1882-1963), better known as ʿAbd al-Karīm (ʿAbdelkrim) al-Khaṭṭābī, was the leader of the Rifian (Rīfī) resistance to Spanish colonialism in northern Morocco and founder of the Rif Republic (1921-6), as well as a scholar, judge, and writer [Illustration 1]. He was born in the town of Ajdīr, in the heart of the Rif, a rural region with cultural, religious, and labour ties to Fez, Tétouan, and eastern Algeria, as well as centuries-old contacts with Spain, whose sovereignty had