LSE4332792 portrait of Abd El Kader (1808-1883) Algerian emir and sultan, Sufi theologian, politician and military resistance to the French colonial army, also writer, poet and philosopher. Engraving by E.Ronjat, to illustrate the story La Syria d\'aujourd\'hui, by M. Lortet, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon, charged with a mission by the Ministry of Public Education, published in the Tour du monde, under the direction of Edouard Charton (1807-1890), 1882, Paris. Selva Collection. by Ronjat, Etienne Antoine Eugene (b.1822); Private Collection; (add.info.: portrait of Abd El Kader (1808-1883) Algerian emir and sultan, Sufi theologian, politician and military resistance to the French colonial army, also writer, poet and philosopher. Engraving by E.Ronjat, to illustrate the story La Syria d\'aujourd\'hui, by M. Lortet, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon, charged with a mission by the Ministry of Public Education, published in the Tour du monde, under the direction of Edouard Charton (1807-1890), 1882, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.