Allahu Akbar
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Key facts
- Lyrics
- Mahmoud El-Sherif, 1955
- Music
- Abdalla Shams El-Din, 1954
- Adopted
- 1 September 1969
- Relinquished
- 20 October 2011
- Preceded by
- " Walla Zaman Ya Selahy " (Egypt)
- Succeeded by
- " Libya, Libya, Libya " (Libya)
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Wikidata facts
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- form of creative work
- song
- applies to jurisdiction
- Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- culture
- Camarón de la Isla
- native label
- الله أكبر
- replaced by
- Libya, Libya, Libya
- has characteristic
- traditional folk song
- different from
- Takbir
- language of work or name
- Arabic
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Encyclopedic overview
"Allahu Akbar" (Arabic: الله أكبر, lit. 'God Is the Greatest') is an Egyptian pro-military patriotic song composed by songwriter Abdalla Shams El-Din in 1954 and written by poet Mahmoud El-Sherif in 1955. It was first used by the Egyptian Armed Forces as a marching song during the Suez Crisis in 1956. The song was also used as the national anthem of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi from 1969 to 2011.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Allahu Akbar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.