Zawiyet Sidi Boushaki

[4][5] The founder of this Sufi school was the great scholar Sidi Brahim bin Faïd al-Boushaki (1394–1453), who established this zawiya for the purpose of education, so as to serve as a beacon for the people of the Khachna mountains, thus its scientific light rays extending to every corner of those lands.

[6][7] The zawiya of Sidi Brahim Boushaki at Thala Oufella (Soumâa) village was considered a prominent place of religious teaching, for the memorization of the Quran and for the teaching of its basic rulings to young people there, thus providing the various mosques of lower Kabylia region, each year during the holy month of Ramadan, with a preservation of the Muslim holy book that was useful for performing the Tarawih prayers, which are characteristic of that very month, and during which the Quran is recited with the Warsh.

[8][9] This zawiya, which opened its doors for the first time in 1442, enjoyed an important ranking in the field of religious formation, as it annually graduated several Huffaz of the Quran, who were also well-learned of both the latter's rulings and the science of Hadith, and who were crucial in framing the various mosques scattered across the region of the Meraldene river.

[27] He was well received by the descendants of the theologian Sidi Boushaki, and gunshots were fired as a sign of rejoicing for his reassuring presence, then a meal of hospitality for distinguished guests was prepared for him, as his hosts thought that he was going to spend the night at the zawiya, but at nightfall he left to sleep elsewhere, so as to trick the possible spies that colonial France might have deployed there.

[30] The zawiya continued to supervise the mosques in the villages of the Col des Beni Aïcha area, providing them with Imams so as to maintain the practice of Islamic worship (Ibadah) in such warlike circumstances.