مشروع كابولاني و الاحتلال الفرنسي لموريتانيا (1902-1905)‎

Abstract EN

The experience of French colonialism in Mauritania in its first stage between (1902-1905) differed from the rest of its colonial experiences, which depended on the power of gunpowder, diplomatic slag, and huge budgets to equip and run the armies, as it was based on peaceful expansion under the slogan of "winning hearts and avoiding bloodshed and reducing campaign costs.

The owner and theorist of this experience was the French orientalist "Xavi Kabulani" who lived in Algeria and learned the Arabic language and the Islamic religion and deepened in the study of Sufi methods, where he developed the idea of this experience, so he led the French campaign against Mauritania with a few men and equipment in 1902, and he was surprisingly easily able to attach a part Including it in the empire without firing a single gunpowder shot, and in this article we will try to shed light on this experience in terms of its origins, foundations, methods of implementation and the results achieved