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The strength we need to prevent colonisation is not necessary in the military.
Hamdan Khodja Memoire Remis À La Commission D’ Afrique En 1833
He also blames Dey Hussein because he had appointed this useless man, the right man in the right place as the saying goes. He depicts the Kabyles and the Arabs who live on the mountains and plains respectively as simple people, brave and war-lovers. He imagined things would happen like in Egypt with Napoleonand someone, an Algerian Muhammad Aliwould emerge and modernise Algeria the French invasion would act as a catalyst. One Night with You film. On the other hand, if the French decided to conquer Algeria and stay there, he promised a tough resistance from the Kabyles and Arabs outside of the Algerian cities.
I always thought the book was originally written in french. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. He said our people have been using a broom with a short handle for N years and nobody thought of using a long handle.
He mentioned the several Deys who got appointed then assassinated by the Janissaries. It tells us how our forbears were…honorable, and brave people. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. As to your comment, I think Bennabi became famous for his colonisability concept because he was the first to introduce it in this very accurate manner, but his analysis was more global.
Algiers attacked by the French marine, 29 June – Theodore Gudin. It basically denies every negative point, or blames it on those who replaced Clauzel. France at that time had all those conditions that make a nation ready to colonize another one…a kind of predator nation…feeding on other nations land and resources to survive and grow.
Le Miroir: Aperçu Historique et Statistique sur la Régence d’Alger
Post was not sent – check your email addresses! The country stagnated for many centuries and it is unfortunately back into stagnation again. You are right, the people cherished many great values.
But while stating these differences, Khodja insists that all are united within the Regency. Last, I disagree hamadn you say the white Europeans are the only to blame for what happened to the Native Americans. The same thing goes for the Arab tribes with their horse-riding skills. Some rumours say Haedo never lived in Algiers and his books relate the facts other captives shared with him.
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Unfortunately the future tells us that he was mistaken and colonialism had stronger arguments. He mentions his own case explaining how he lost a lot of money to the French.
In the first part, Hamdan Khodja describes the different populations living in the Regency. Even when Muslim states conquered other countries, it was never because they felt they were superior. He talked of the massacres perpetrated by the French army in several places in Khoxja and he gave the example of Blida. Another important point mentioned in the book is kkhodja taxes. Having said this, Bennabi reacted to his environment with people complaining all the time and protesting to get their rights very similar to our current situation.
Instead, they thought they were superior and decided therefore to colonise the less developed inferior ones. Then a chapter comes on the decadence of the government. hamran
To hamean out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Hamdan Khodja shares his perspective on the French invasion and tries to explain the causes of its success.
The first step would be to change what is interior to us, the colonisability. Hamdan then explained that hamdam French had no right to tax the Algerians, mainly because they were unable to guarantee security outside of the city of Algiers, and also because they are not Muslims and many of the taxes they claimed they wanted the Algerians to pay them as they did for the Turks were based on Islam.
The second part of the book deals with the French invasion and its consequences both on Algeria and France. What solution did we find? As a “kouloughli”, which hkodja a term used hxmdan refer to the offspring of Turkish men and Algerian women, Khodja received an excellent education and was well travelled. The last point in this first part was reserved to the government and the different positions and responsibilities one could find in the system a description of who does what.
Instead, the Turks relied on the Jews whom they appointed at khodma important positions. As much as we should work on our colonisability, the Europeans should work on their colonisity. Khodja was born in Algiers, Algeria, in to a family of Turkish origin belonging to the high administration of the regency.
On the other hand, the people who live in the cities such as Algiers are more sophisticated, richer and more knowledgeable. Furthermore, Khodja wrote the book ” Le Miroir ” in which he denounced the encroachments by French soldiers in Algiers, thus becoming the first essayist on this subject; it was translated into French and printed in Paris in When he became a victim of the French conquest ofhe sent a petition to King Louis Philippe to complain about the atrocities committed against him by the French Army.
He expected them to act according to honour or moral codes while they had none.