الطلبة الجزائريون بتونس و اسهاماتهم في العمل الوطني التونسي خلال الفترة (1900-1945)‎م

الملخص EN

The Role of Algerian Students in Tunisia in Supporting Tunisian Patriotic Acts.

During the period (1900-1945) ADThe historical period under investigation in this paper represents an important juncture in the formation and growth of the Algerian and Tunisian national movements.

This is because during this phase, the two movements achieved many successes and also experienced a number of failures and setbacks.

This paper documents the fluctuations in the development of these movements, focusing primarily on student activities in Tunisia during this period citing data of Algerian student presence in that country.

In both the Tunisian and Algerian contexts, students were significant participants in the national movements, whether they were in a state of ebb or flow.

It is, therefore, a serious omission to present the evolution of these movements without alluding to the contribution of student bodies.

These Algerian students, who constituted the majority of the educated and working class, voiced, by virtue of their origins, the deep concerns of the country and represented its living conscience.

They played a significant role in spearheading the Tunisian nationalist movement from as early as the time of the declaration of the country as a French protectorate and the emergence of the Tunisian Youth Movement.

That is if they had not, in fact, initiated the whole movement on its whole.

That took place during a period of social transformation and calls for independence towards the end of the First World War, which were spurred by the social upheaval that the Tunisian society experienced as a direct result of the economic crisis and colonisation.

It also should be noted here that the split in the ranks of the Algerian national movement in the mid-thirties of the last century has caused divergence among Algerian students in Tunisia.

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The Arab-Islamic ideology of the old Constitutional Party has attracted the students of the Association of Ulama or Ben-Badists, modern activism, and national struggle movements of revolutionary dimension as pursued by the New Constitutional Party attracted students of the People's Party or the Masalists.

This political duality in the Tunisian arena has provided the students with an overall integration and complementation of thought that placed them at the intersection of this ideological split.

The result was the ideological schism of 1947, which was confirmed in practice in the fifties in the form of two student organizations inverse by their contrasting views and which produced the dual nature of the liberal arena, whether in Tunisia or Algeria.

The bilateral competition became a basic peculiarity of the national movement in the Maghreb in general.

It is surprising then that this enormous student force (graduates of Tunisian universities and institutes), which has on many occasions proved its ability to impose its presence on the political arena of Algeria and Tunisia, mobilize the masses and gain public sympathy, did not, during the period in question, build a political organization that espouses purely Islamic thought, such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or purely Arab nationalist sentiments, such as the Arab Baath Party or the Arab Nationalist Movement in Syria.

This begs the question of whether this student mass had not matured enough to organize politically or whether it simply was not strong enough to withstand the oppression it experienced