Malikism in Algeria

[7] The efforts of these fouqaha made the mosques of medieval towns shine through a rigorous and persevering teaching of the precepts of the Maliki fiqh based on the book Muwatta Imam Malik.

[9] The Zayyanid dynasty saw flourish the activity of the scientific elite of Maliki jurists who crisscrossed the country from Béjaïa to Tlemcen and beyond to spread the glimmers of knowledge and drink from the Ijtihad of emblematic figures of Maghrebian Malikism so famous in the Muslim world and in later generations.

[10] The strengthening of the Maliki tradition in Algerian society [ar] is implemented by the organization of several thematic conferences in many universities, cities, zawiyas and mosques where many delegations of scholars and specialists come to enrich the debates by their speeches.

[17][18] It is thus that the bursting of national and religious borders has induced a cracking of the dominant Maliki dogma by making convey the concept of Non-Madhhabism under the eyes of theologians and Algerian officials.

[19][20] With the appearance of ritual practices foreign to Maliki Islam, the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments in Algeria has taken measures to protect Algerian society against division and fitna.