Omar al-Mukhtar
Libyan imam
Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī, called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was an Imam and leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization... Wikipedia
Born: August 20, 1858, Zawiyat Zanzur, Libya
Died: September 16, 1931 (age 73 years), Soluch concentration camp
Place of burial: ضريح عمر المختار سلوق, Suluq, Libya
Children: Muhammad Omar Al-Mukhtar
Nationality: Libyan
Parents: Aisha bint Moharib and Mokhtar bin Omar
Allegiance: Senussi Order