Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil (Arabic: جون محمد بن عبد الجليل‎) (alternative transcripts: Benabdeljlil or Abd al-Jalil, 1904 – 24 November 1979) was a Moroccan Roman Catholic priest and a Catholic convert from Islam.[1]

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil
Personal
Born1904
Fez, Morocco
Died24 November 1979(1979-11-24) (aged 74–75)
Villejuif, France
ReligionRoman Catholic Church
NationalityMoroccan
Military service
RankPriest
Senior posting
Ordination1935

Biography

Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil was born in Fez, the spiritual city of Morocco, and begins by learning the Koran at the University of al-Karaouine and accompanied his parents at the age of 9 years old on a pilgrimage to Mecca. In 1922 he entered at Gouraud High School, where he graduated in 1925, while a resident of the Foucault school run by Franciscan fathers in Rabat. It was at this time that Mohamed developed an interest in Christian religion. Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized on April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon. This conversion causes at the time of sending to Paris a confidential note of French intelligence services in Morocco, who fear it causes problems in the Protectorate. In 1929 Jean Abdejlil entered in the Franciscan Order. In 1930 he published anonymously in the journal En terre d’Islam, calls "offering the faithful to devote Friday to pray for our distant brothers", originally a "League for Friday prayers to the conversion of Muslims." Later, he also writes a "Novena for the conversion of Muslims". In 1935 Abdejlil was ordained Roman Catholic priest. In 1936 he was named professor at Catholic Institute of Paris. Abdejlil resigned in 1964, already hit by a tongue cancer and retired to the Saint Mary-Rose convent. In 1966 he was received by Pope Paul VI. Father Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil died on November 24, 1979.

Bibliography
  • Borrmans Maurice, Jean-Mohammed Abd el-Jalil, Witness of the Qur'an and the Gospel, Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2005, ISBN 2204077844.
  • Francoise Jacquin (ed.), Massignon – Abdel Jalil: Godfather and godson. Correspondence, 1926–1962, Paris, Editions du Cerf, "History", 2007, ISBN 9782204082334.
  • Alain Messaoudi, François Pouillon (ed.), "Dictionary of French Orientalist language" IISMM-Karthala, 2008, ISBN 978-2-84586-802-1.
  • Moroccan Vatican Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil (1904–1979), in MEH, Evangelicalism: Missionaries among us, The Gazette, Morocco, May 9, 2008.
  • Dominique Avon, Recension of the book edited by Francoise Jacquin [ archive ], Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim societies (IEISM-EHESS), Paris, November 6, 2008.

References
  1. François Pouillon Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française −2008 p4 " ABDELJELIL Jean-Mohamed (Fès, 1904– Paris, 1979) Arabisant islamologue. Issu d'une notable famille d'origine andalouse de Fès, où il est formé à la mosquée-université Karawiyyîn et à l'école Charles de ..."
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