Abbassi Madani (Arabic: عباسي مدني; 28 February 1931[1] – 24 April 2019) was an Algerian politician who was the President of the Islamic Salvation Front.
[2] Madani advocated, on the one hand, the "stepwise" introduction of Sharia (Islamic Law) and called Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the founder of the dominant religious movement in Saudi Arabia, the "avant-garde of the reform-oriented Muslim world".
In a 1990 interview he said he wanted to suppress "usury" in banking and to substantially reduce taxes, while he avoided answering a question about the financing of development projects.
[9] Politically, he was widely considered to represent the moderate wing of FIS, contrasted with Ali Belhadj's more hardline views.
[citation needed] In January 2011, Agence France-Presse announced, in connection with ongoing demonstrations in Algeria, that Madani had fled to Qatar.