Abdelkader Mesli (Arabic: عَبْد ٱلْقَادِر مَسْلِي, ʿabd ʾal-Qādir Maslī; 1902 – 21 June 1961) was an Algerian Sunni imam and resistance member during the Second World War.

Through his actions at the Grand Mosque of Paris, at the Fort du Hâ, and within the Army Resistance Organization (ORA), he contributed to the rescue of several hundred Jews from the Holocaust.

[4] When the Second World War started, Mesli got involved with Kaddour Benghabrit, rector of the mosque, in rescuing Jews by issuing false certificates of Muslim faith.

[4] Paul Valroff wrote numerous letters to him, invited him to take care of his son Roger, and expressed his gratitude.

"On 5 July 1944, Mesli was denounced and arrested alongside Roger Valroff in a restaurant in Bordeaux by the Gestapo and his home was raided by the French collaborationist police.

[4] On 22 June 1952, he visited the Douaumont ossuary, near Verdun, and took part in a ceremony organized there by Marshal Alphonse Juin as a representative of Kaddour Benghabrit.

[1] Despite Abdelkader Mesli having remained relatively discreet about his involvement in the Resistance, he left behind a substantial body of written work and archives.

[2] On 12 March 2020, the council of Paris voted unanimously for a street in the French capital to bear the name of Abdelkader Mesli.

[13][14] Regarding his actions, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, declared:[15]My illustrious predecessors have engraved in the national memory a certain idea of humanism.

The first rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, along with Imam Abdelkader Mesli, helped save Jewish people from Nazi barbarism.