Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (born 1862)

Omar al-Mukhtar

Libyan resistance leader (1858–1931)

ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt al-Manifī, called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the native resistance in Cyrenaica under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya.…