Djamaâ El Djazaïr: A Bulwark for a Unifying Religious Reference
✍️ BY: Dr. Hana Saada
Algiers – November 2025 – Cheikh Mohamed Maâmoun Al Kacimi Al Hassani, rector of Djamaâ El Djazaïr, declared on Thursday that the institution—charged with a mission of civilisational scope—will remain an unassailable bulwark for a unifying religious reference. Speaking after a private audience with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Cheikh Al Kacimi delivered a measured but uncompromising assertion of the mosque’s role at the heart of Algeria’s spiritual and cultural strategy.
At the conclusion of his meeting with the head of state, the rector said he had reviewed “the full range of achievements completed by Djamaâ El Djazaïr across its various establishments and structures.” This inventory, he explained, demonstrates that the project is not an architectural emblem alone but a functioning network of institutions set to fulfil a long-term civilisational vocation—one explicitly aligned with the vision President Tebboune articulated at the site’s inauguration.
Cheikh Al Kacimi left no doubt about the institution’s immediate priorities. He announced that “the first cohort of international students will shortly join the Higher School of Islamic Sciences,” a milestone that signals Djamaâ El Djazaïr’s transition from a national symbol to an active centre of transnational learning. The rector emphasised that ongoing efforts concentrate on building cooperation with the major scientific poles of the Arab-Muslim world and, increasingly, with institutions across African nations. Such partnerships are framed not as symbolic gestures but as strategic investments in knowledge exchange, religious scholarship, and the propagation of a coherent, unifying religious reference.
Operationally, Cheikh Al Kacimi stated that “the various establishments of Djamaâ El Djazaïr have begun implementing the planned programmes as scheduled.” The language is deliberate: programmes are not speculative; they are being executed according to the timetable set by the institution’s architects and planners. This fidelity to programme and schedule underscores the mosque’s intent to function as a durable institutional actor rather than a ceremonial project with fleeting visibility.
More than an educational or cultural project, Djamaâ El Djazaïr is presented by its rector as a strategic defence against fragmentation of religious authority. “Djamaâ El Djazaïr,” he affirmed, “as the President of the Republic has expressed and as Algerians expect, will remain today and tomorrow a bulwark for the unifying religious reference.” In these words lies a clear policy posture: the mosque shall be an anchor of normative religious guidance, a centre that consolidates authentic discourse and resists the centrifugal forces that attempt to relativise or atomise religious authority.
The import of Cheikh Al Kacimi’s statements must be read in two registers. Domestically, they reassure a public anxious for coherent, nationally anchored religious leadership. Regionally, they project Algeria’s ambition to host and export a model of religious education and engagement rooted in state-backed institutions and scholarly exchange. The imminent arrival of foreign students, coupled with active collaboration with Arab-Muslim and African academic poles, positions Djamaâ El Djazaïr to play a commanding role in shaping the contours of contemporary Islamic thought in the region.
If the project realises the rector’s affirmed trajectory—programmes implemented on schedule, meaningful international enrolment, and sustained cooperation with reputable scientific poles—Djamaâ El Djazaïr will have transcended monumentality to become an operational hub of civilisational influence. Cheikh Al Kacimi’s message is both assurance and challenge: assurance that the institution will defend a unifying religious reference; challenge to the mosque’s leadership and partners to convert lofty declarations into enduring institutions of knowledge, ethics, and communal cohesion.
In the rector’s closing formulation lies a concise pledge to the nation: Djamaâ El Djazaïr will remain, now and henceforth, a bulwark for a federating religious reference—an institutional answer to the contemporary demand for religious clarity, scholarly excellence, and civilisational continuity.
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