num_pages: 256
description: Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived civilizing mission in the mid-nineteenth century Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration enlightenment and emancipation actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.
language: English
title: Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
publisher: Rutgers University Press