قضايا الهوية الوطنية في كتابات النخبة الجزائرية : مصطفى بن الخوجة أنموذجا

Abstract EN

The intellectual production of Mustafa Ben al-Khuja coincided with the intensification of colonial policies aimed at obliterating the national identity and domestication of Algerian society.

Though he held several administrative positions in the French administration, he tried to incite Algerians to adhere to the pillars of portraying Algerian personality.

Here in this article, we seek to highlight the great role played by Ben al-Khuja in the battle to enlighten the minds.

We tried to draw attention to his huge intellectual product by reviewing examples of issues of Algerian society in the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in light of his opinions and writings.

We can consider Ben al-Khuja to be one of the first reformers who realized the ambitions of the French administration, so we find him using the soft discourse with the French to avoid direct confrontation with the authority, especially under the control of the pens of the reform advocates both internally and externally.

It is noticed that he followed the approach of reforming society without attracting or disturbing the attention of the French administration.

This is because he knows that banning his ideas serves as a ban of the features of the Algerian national identity with its Arab-Islamic dimensions.