Abdelbaki Sahraoui

Abdelbaki Sahraoui (Arabic: عبد الباقي صحرواي) (August 25 1910 - July 11 1995) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria.

He then moved to Algiers, where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars' Society.

In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris, from which he preached in favor of armed struggle—jihad—against the Algerian government.

[1] On 11 July 1995, he was assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group.

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