المجاعة بتوات إبان الاحتلال الفرنسي 1944-1945 على ضوء سجلات الأحباس و التركات و فتاوى الفقهاء

Abstract EN

This study discusses famine crisis that the Touat community suffered from between the years of 1944-1945, as one of the most important crisis that afflicted the community during the era of the French colonization of the region (1901-1962).

This crisis was a result of natural and human factors that affected the community.

The study sheds light on the crisis real causes and effects, especially the economic ones by investigating two main sources: the habous and legacies records of the years of 1944-1946 drown up by the Shari'a court judges as well as fatwas of the religious scholars that dealt with some issues and calamities that have arisen during that period, these documents, which have not only preserved our rights, but also preserved a part of the region history have proven that the natural factor that consists of locusts was not the primary factor behind the crisis emergence, but rather the human factor which consist of the colonial policy.

And despite that people of Touat found ways to confront and mitigate the crisis that took many forms due to the ence of the role of the French administration, the crisis had many effects on the social and economic level and caused an increase in poverty rate as a result of transfer of properties and loss of houbous as well as severity and distress that people of Touat experienced back then, and the effects of the crisis recorded by the documents that those who lived there still remember.

This year became a reference for history for people who live in that region.