The national reform movement during French colonialism(1913-1931)

Abstract

The Algerian reform movement had an effective role in the national renaissance from its slumber caused by the occupier in all its ways, whether it was related to trying to eliminate the national character, using methods of integration and Christianization, taking advantage of the conditions he created, in violation of the terms of his tyrannical agreements through which he demonstrated his desire for development for the homeland without... Violating the freedoms of its members, the components of their personality, and their property, which the European colonizer benefited from during the occupation, but he failed to do so, as evidenced by the emergence of the national reform movement, with the care of reform pioneers such as: the two scholars, Abdel Hamid Ibn Badis and Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi. These figures, due to their Islamic cultural and religious components, are passionate about seeking knowledge. Such as Ibn Badis moving to the Olive Mosque in 1913, not caring about the distance. Then, they soon founded the Association of Muslim Scholars in 1931, making it diversify its tasks from spreading religious teachings to raising awareness of the political reality that existed at that time during colonialism, using all means for the sake of its noble tasks, including: Education in mosques and schools to newspapers that had a major impact on the national and international levels. This is evident through the successive fierce editorial revolutions that the colonizer suffered throughout the period of his occupation and in addition to international support for the national cause.