Musique andalouse d'Alger = Andalusian music from Algiers

Al-Djazaïriya Al-Mossiliya Association one of the most representative and one of the strongest of these associations. It was founded in 1932 with the symbolic name al-Mossiliya;this name was chosen as a tribute to a legendary family of Iraq musicians, Ibrahim and Ishaq al-Mawsili, who lived during the Abassidyan Empire(8-9 centuries). Arab historians have claimed in their chronicles that it was Ishaq al-Mawsili who brought about the exile of his pupil Ziryab, forced to stay in Kairouan, Tunisia, for ten long years, before settling in Cordoba in the year 822.In 1951 al-Mossiliya merged with another association, al-Djazairya, founded in 1930.