Islam is the majority and state religion in Algeria. The vast majority of citizens are Sunni Muslims belonging to Maliki school of jurisprudence, with...

The Islamic State – Algeria Province (IS-AP; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية – ولاية الجزائر, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah – Wilayah al-Jazā’ir) is a branch of the...

and violently overthrow the socialist government in pursuit of establishing an Islamic state in Algeria. Support base of the GIA mainly consisted of the...

Islam; the few non-Sunni Muslims are mainly Ibadis from the Mozabite valley at 1.3%[citation needed] (see Islam in Algeria). Christianity in Algeria constitutes...

and a Jewish community of less than 200 people. Islam, the religion of almost all of the Algerian people, pervades most aspects of life. It provides...

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by...

Islam in Algeria after independence was dominated by Salafist "Islamic revivalism" and political Islam rather than the more apolitical popular Islam of...

Islamist coalition movement was founded in Algeria known as the FIS or Front Islamique de Salut (the Islamic Salvation Front). Led by Abbassi Madani,...

officials in the Sahara. It was officially banned two months later. Its armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), fought in the Algerian Civil War...

party in Algeria. It was the principal nationalist movement during the Algerian War and the sole legal and ruling political party of the Algerian state...