Strategy of French policy to fight against cultural factors and the destruction of cultural and religious institutions in Algeria (1830-1870)

Abstract

is article examines the first phase of the French occupation of Algeria during (1830-1870), within the framework of a cultural history which looks at the cultural components which were attacked according to a French strategy planned since the early days. The manifestations of French policy of fighting the Islamic religion, spreading Christianity and creating a nucleus
were evident. The loyal elite, the fight against Arab-Islamic culture, the spread of French, competition and restriction of the Arabic language, and the plunder of Arab-Islamic heritage.
In addition to the demolition of the original cultural institutions represented in mosques, schools, institutes, corners of knowledge and Islamic endowments, which led to the emergence of national reactions which confronted French politics and hampered some of his plans.
And who’s to be noted here is that the war which aimed at identity despite its ferocity at this point, it paved the way for a future which can be compared to what has been mentioned previously so that one can see the stages of distortion that have affected identity and whose effects are still present today in the lives of Algerians and have other forms of struggle on the
part of Patriots.