André Servier was a historian who lived in French Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century.
Career He was chief editor of La Dépêche de Constantine,La Dépêche de Constantine et de l'Est Algérien - Constantine a newspaper from the city of Constantine in northeastern Algeria.El Watan, Le temps de la régression historique Servier deeply studied North African customs, Ibn Ishaq's Sira, the Ottoman Empire, and the emerging Panislamic movement alongside rising nationalism in the Maghreb and the Middle East. Servier saw himself as continuing Louis Bertrand's work, but adapted to the Islamic background.L’islam et la psychologie du musulman (1923), Introduction
A defender of Modernity and European colonization,Youssef Girard Le cheikh Abd el-Hamid Ben Badis vu par Malek Bennabi Servier favored reflective morality against customary morality or authority-enforced puritanism. He had strong opinions about Islam and about the intellectual superiority of European thought and its institutions. He defended the philosophical thought and work of the Western world as a philosophy founded on the idea of freedom and enlightened reason for mankind.Wikiquote
Main works Le Nationalisme Musulman en Egypte, en Tunisie, en Algérie : le péril de l'avenir, Constantine, M. Boet. 1913 L’Islam et la Psychologie du Musulman, Paris, 1923 Le problème tunisien et la question du peuplement français, 1925
See also Louis Bertrand Religious law Secular ethics
References
External links Numerous blogs reproduce chapter by chapter Servier's book L’Islam et la Psychologie du Musulman, translated into English under the title "Islam and the Psychology of the Musulman". (Note : The English version has only 16 chapters, while the French original version has 20) Entre Europe et Méditerranée : le dialogue culturel en question JSTOR: French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina