Muhammad al-Id Al Chalifa

Muhammad al-Id Al Chalifa (born 1904 in Ani Bajda, died July 31, 1979 in Batna) - Algerian poet, one of the renewal of secular poetry in Arabic in Algeria. Curriculum vitae

He completed his elementary school in Biskra and then went to Tunis and spent two years studying at the Az-Zajtun mosque where he acquired basic knowledge of classical Arabic and Arabic literature. For family reasons, he did not finish his studies. He returned to Algeria and became a teacher of Arabic in Biskra, then moved to Batna and worked there as well. He was active in the Muslim Algerian Association of Algeria; He was the director of a reformed school in Algiers (modeled at the school at the az-Zajtun mosque). He then worked at Ajn Malili School. During the Algerian War he was imprisoned by the French authorities because his work encouraged the Algerians to fight for independence. Creation

Al-Id Al Chalifa published his poems almost exclusively in the press, in the writings of "Ash-Shihab", "Al-Basa'ir", "Wadi Mzab" and others. It was not until 1967 that some of his works were published in the form of a carpet for which he was awarded the Algerian Writers Guild Award.

The themes of the poet's works are almost entirely related to Algeria's politics and current problems. The poet included in it the call to erect mosques, open schools, care for Arabic. He demanded national liberation and supported life in independent Algeria, strictly respecting the principles of Islam, proclaiming the brotherhood of all Algerians, poetically expressing his love for his country. His writings include anti-French speeches accusing the colonial authorities of making empty promises to improve the legal situation of Algerian citizens. He called men to learn and to learn, and women to preserve traditional clothing (curtains) and to limit themselves to religious education. The style of his poems is usually moralizing and didactic.

The language of Al-Idol al-Idol poetry is poor. Some of his poems refer to images and comparisons of classical Arabic poetry, but his knowledge of this tradition was limited; In most cases, the poet, directly without using a metaphor or metaphor, called the problems he wanted to address and formulated his summons. His contribution to Algerian literature is the mere fact of creating secular poetry in Arabic, because by the end of the nineteenth century in Algeria, where Arabic was eliminated from schools and offices, only Arabic poetry survived.

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