Abdel Halim Ben Samaia
He was one of the intellectuals who devoted their lives to serve science and education, he began his life full of activities as a teacher ,shared his thoughts with his students like other reformist teachers in the period (Abdel Kader Medjaoui) Medjaoui had a clear influence on him Ibn Soumaya did not dig deeply in the problems of education to establish educational theories and propose modifications for the school programs like professor Medjaoui did, He simply described the bad educational situation and showed in a rational style the value of science and its necessity for humans ,He was not limited in the field of education in his activity but he went beyond it in writing as did his contemporaries so he stood out when he wrote Islamic philosophy since he was influenced by
Sheik Mohammed Abdou he was one of his companions during his stay when he visited Algeria .
He was one of those who recommended sheikh Mohamed Abdou to not mention France badly in the magazine Manar, so that the colonial authorities wouldn’t shut down light for this magazine which was considered as one of the messengers of the eastern reforms to the north African. The trips he had to Egypt and Istanbul had an impact in shaping the idea of the Islamic university that made the traditional schools struggle .he became one of the north African reform scholars who exchanged letters with Mohamed abdou who considered him as one of the major bases in sharing the Salafi reform trend with his Algerian brothers due to all the qualities he discovered in him when he visited Algeria sheikh Mohamed Abdou mentioned during his correspondence with Ibn Soumaya “ if you revealed to yourself what you revealed to me you would have known what god blessed you with reason and discipline you would know that you’ll be taking your nation With god’s will to the path of guidance” .
