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Algerian Franco-Muslim Rally

assimilationist political party in colonial Algeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4724074 ↗
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Algerian Franco-Muslim Rally (in French: Rassemblement Franco-Musulman Algérien) was an assimilationist political party in colonial Algeria founded in 1938. RFMA was led by Dr. Mohammed Saleh Bendjelloul.

Sources

Tlemcani, Rachid, State and Revolution in Algeria. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Algerian, Franco-Muslim and Rally can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4724074. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Algerian Franco-Muslim Rally” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.