 If his mother, Cherifa bent Saïd ben Ahmed was born in this same place, in the village of Taourirt.His father, Mohammed Akli (Muḥend Akli), was from the Beni Sedka (), a tribe of Djurdjura, and settled in this area of the Oued Sahel after the conquest of Kabylia by the French army in 1856-57.A scholar in Arabic, it is certain, who must have belonged to the Marabout caste.