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- noun Any of various
Arabic orIslamic officials . - noun A former
village headman inBengal , through whom thegovernment dealt with thepeasants .
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Rebellion against the Ottomans in Oran and Kabylia was led by Abd al-Qadir ibn al-Sharif, head (muqaddam) of the Darqawiyya Sufi order.
b. Algeria 2001
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