Abd-el-Kadir (Abd-el-Ka`dir) , an Arab emir, who for fifteen years waged war against the French in N. Africa, but at length surrendered prisoner to them in 1847. On his release in 1852 he became a faithful friend of France (1807‒1883).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Abdals * Abde`ra