Muslim justice in Algeria during the colonial era The slow agony of the 1886 Decree and the 1892 Senate Commission

Abstract

After the collapse of the Algerian state institutions in the summer of 1830, the turn came to the society's institutions, the first of which was the Islamic judiciary; it was subjected to a series of attacks by the French occupation authorities, which issued numerous decisions against it. Through the 1886 decree and the proposals of the Senate Commission of 1892, the colonial policy led to the resolution of the conflict over judicial powers, the determination of the number of courts, the dissolution of advisory councils, and the subjugation of judges to new institutions and laws. The issues on which this study is based are as follows: why did the colonial administrative authorities issue the 1886 decree at this precise time? And what did it add to the previous decrees?