Cheikh Mohamed El-Boumerdassi (Arabic: الشيخ محمد البومرداسي) was one of the principal leaders of the popular Mokrani Revolt uprising of 1871 against the French occupation of Algeria.

[4][5] As described by the French as adults like his younger brothers, he presented a sober build and a height exceeding 1.6 m, with graying black hair and eyebrows, a receding wrinkled forehead and chestnut eyes with a long slender nose and a big mouth, a round chin on an oval face, a swarthy complexion and he was a little bald.

[10] The rural populations of the east of the city of Algiers then gathered around the marabouts of the Rahmaniyya brotherhood to find a solution to this imminent demographic invasion and to counter the specter of the theft of their arable land in order to offer them to the new colonizers arriving from France.

[27][28] It is the research of the scientist "Melica Ouennoughi" which made it possible to reveal the place of the deportation of "Cheikh Boumerdassi" during the genealogical establishment of the first lists of the movements of Maghrebis condemned to the Caledonian prison from 1867 until 1895.

[33] After the Mokrani Revolt was defeated from May 1871 by General Orphis Léon Lallemand and Captain Alexandre Fourchault, and that Cheikh Boumerdassi was captured, imprisoned and deported, the land of his family and his brothers was plundered by the French colonial administration.