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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- native label
- الله أكبر
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"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.
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