أهل الذمة في إيالة الجزائر بين الاعتراف الديني و الحرية الاقتصادية و التأثير السياسي

Abstract EN

The article addresses the situation of Dhimmis or Jews in the regency of Algiers-the only officially recognized group, and the civil rights it enjoyed within the millet system.

we investigate its conditions of stability, relations, and influences on the economy and politics.

by reference to the religious Hanafi and Maliki courts records, on one hand the Dhimmis had robust economic links to a Turkish minority from which they acquired properties and barrowed money.

on the other hand, however, their contacts with the local people were limited as the locals were often doubtful and distrustful towards them.

lending contracts between jewish merchants and a wealthy group of the local people represented a portion of that limited relationship.

by questioning sources from that era, we confirmed that they enjoyed religious freedom.

however, they were sometimes socially oppressed, and their political influence on the rulers did not increase for some of their members until the late Ottoman era, as they were granted the advantage of disposition of the foreign-economic activity of the regency which was one of the major factors in its downfall in 1830.