Abstract
The paper discusses the French colonization of Algeria, within the context of Muslim European civilizational encounters. It focuses more on the European colonization process in the world in general, and the so-called “mission civilisatrice” of French colonization of Algeria in particular. It takes the period from 1830 until 1962 as its interval of analysis, by analyzing the various changes that the colonizers brought to the Algerian society and people during their 132 years of colonization. The paper found that the French Colonization of Algeria is one of the most violent, radical and hegemonic civilizational encounters between the Muslim world and Europe. Moreover, Algeria has experienced one of the severe processes of colonization, which affected all aspects of the Algerian natives’ lives, and the colonizers changed the structure of society and the social institutions as well as their cultural traditions, which experienced severe damage.
Highlights
As early as the nineteenth century, Europe witnessed zeal of expansion over the world
The colonization affected all aspects of the Algerian natives’ lives, and the colonizers changed the structure of society and the social institutions as well as their cultural traditions, which experienced severe damage
Algeria has experienced one of the severe processes of colonization, which affected all aspects of the Algerian natives’ lives, and the colonizers changed the structure of society and the social institutions as well as their cultural traditions, which experienced severe damage
Summary
As early as the nineteenth century, Europe witnessed zeal of expansion over the world. Through discoveries of the Americas and the ancient world of Asia and Africa, Europe promoted a new policy of colonization and expansion, and marked a new phase of civilizational encounters with other civilizations i.e. Islamic, Chinese, Indian and other civilizations. Among those colonization expansions of Europe in the 19th century, the French colonization of Algeria was a remarkable step towards expansion put under the motto of civilizational mission (la mission civilisatrice). The analysis of the situation is examined within the context of the civilizational encounter between Europe and the Muslim world and within the colonization process in the world in general. The colonization affected all aspects of the Algerian natives’ lives, and the colonizers changed the structure of society and the social institutions as well as their cultural traditions, which experienced severe damage
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