ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Muṣṭafā b. Makkī b. Bādīs, known as Ben Bādīs (1889-1940), was an Algerian scholar, exegete, educator, Islamic reformer, and spiritual figurehead of cultural nationalism. He was born into an ancient, landowning family of urban notables and ʿulamāʾ in Constantine (Quṣtanṭīna), the principal inland city of eastern Algeria. His family, descended from the fifth/eleventh-century Zīrid rulers of Ifrīqiya (modern Tunisia and east/central Algeria), had maintained considerable cultural prestige and an influential social position in the city since its conquest by the French in