Cheikh Bouamama

{{Short description|Algeriannce leader (1841-1908)}}

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| name = Cheikh Bouamama

| image = El Bayadh - Cheikh Bouamama البيض - الشيخ بوعمامة.jpg

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| birth_date = 1841{{cite book|author=Paul Gaffarel|title=Histoire de l'expansion coloniale de la France depuis 1870 jusqu'en 1905|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_xaAAAAQAAJ|year=1905|publisher=Barlatier|page=19}}{{cite book|title=Collection des ouvrages publiés par la Commission des publications et notices ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPCgAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=Barlatier|page=19}}

| birth_place = Figuig

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1908|10|07|1841}}{{cite book|author=Rachid Benyoub|title=Algeria 2002 Political Directory: Illustrated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9NyAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=R. Benyoub|page=21}}{{cite book|author=Abder-Rahmane Derradji|title=A Concise History of Political Violence in Algeria, 1954-2000: Brothers in Faith, Enemies in Arms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMbxAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=E. Mellen Press|isbn=978-0-7734-7047-7|page=20}}

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| known_for = Leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh

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Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah ({{langx|ar|الشيخ بوعمامة}}) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.{{sfn|Aghrout|2005|p=86}}

Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.{{sfn|Sivers|2012}}

The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.{{sfn|Sivers|2012}}{{sfn|Krause|2017|loc=PT175}}

The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").{{sfn|Armes|2005|p=191}}