page_title: Mohamed Seghir Boushaki
section_title: Sufism
hierarchical_section_title: Mohamed Seghir Boushaki / Sufism
caption_attribution_description: English: Murals inside Cheikh Ben Abderrahmane mosque
context_page_description: Mohamed Seghir Boushaki, was an Algerian Berber politician after the French conquest of Algeria.
context_section_description: Mohamed Seghir Boushaki did not however break his spiritual and family ties with the followers of the Zawiyas Rahmaniyya of Tizi Ouzou who often visited him at his home in Ménerville, made a passage to his "Moorish Café" during their movements and sat as him in the 27th electoral circle of Tizi Ouzou like him in the 29th constituency of Alma (Boudouaou).
  During the religious festivals, human foot convoys of Kabyle Sufis linked the villages of the "Aïth Aïcha" with those of the "Aïth Guechtoula" of Boghni with psalmodies, recitations and intonations all along the route of about 40 km.
  The pilgrims and Kabyle disciples started from the Zawiyas of Sidi Boushaki to reach the Bounouh Zaouiya in order to celebrate the Mawlid each year.
  Mohamed Seghir then built a volunteer house of passengers at "Thala Oufella (Soumâa)" to welcome these Sufi disciples during their religious wanderings.
  He had previously sent his son "M'Hamed Boushaki" as well as his other brothers to study in the "Boumerdassi Zawiya" south of Tidjelabine.
  Meanwhile, his elder brother "Ali Boushaki" (1855–1965) had taken a theologian route to become one of the muftis of Lower Kabylie according to the Maliki rite and was named Mokaddem of the tarika Rahmaniyya in the region between The Mitidja and the Djurdjura, as well as his position as Imam of the preaching at the Mosque of Ménerville.
caption: Bounouh Zaouiya
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