The brotherhood expansion and the turco-African relations from XVIIth to the XIXth centuries. Jillali Adnani
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To treat the relationship between Turkey and Africa is not an easy thing when one has the ambition to call in all questions. The Moslem Turkish power was viewed as an invading one, to treat the Turkish rule as the General P. J André said it : “ the Turkish occupation does not succeed there any more. One needed the French occupation to renovate, under the impulse of the always alive Mediterranean thought, the demographic power, the agricultural, economic development of North Africa, to give it its geographical borders, or even to inspire in it undoubtedly, the alarm clock of its personality. Indeed, there are several readings of the history of the relationship between Turkey and the countries of Africa. Initially, the Algerian and Moroccan reading and finally the French colonial one tried to draw aside any contribution of the Turkish presence. The historical studies of the colonial period ignored the roles of the Turkish presence and tried to make the junction between Roman or Byzantine history and the time of French colonization. Always in this colonial literature, the history of the Turco-African relationship was limited to the panarabism and the headings of the Turkish intrigues like that classified in the reports of the “Services of French Moslem affairs” that viewed the Moslem world as divided between panarabism at the political level, Maghrebian Islam with brotherhood Predominance and African Islam mixed with animism.