Day Ten: "Ottoman Influence on Algeria"

The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during it's reign had many diffusing properties, spreading their influence to many nations throughout the Middle East. Algeria was one of these nations, and at the time was under French colonial rule. According to author Edmund Burke in his book Islam, politics, and social movements, the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century sparked a self-sufficiency program in which taxes were raised in order to support new regimes.

He says that "the French extended over the whole country a tax system in which, as mentioned above, had been limited during the Ottoman period to the top 20 percent of the most productive districts of Algeria" (Burke 47).

Thus, a financial boom appeared in Algeria, which allowed the newly developing social, political, and economical infrastructure to gain foundations with new taxes.

Source:

Burke, Edmund, & Lapidus, Ira M., & Abraham, Ervand. "Islam, politicals, and social movements". Accessed 2 June 2009. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, California. 1988. Scanned to GoogleBooks. Accessed 31 May, 2009.