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Islam and the Metropole is an exploration of the colonial policies
of France regarding Islam and the effects they had on religion in
the early days of Algerian independence. Following the colonization
of Algeria in 1830, the French authorities adopted a manipulative
policy regarding the philosophy and practice of Islam. This was
based on nineteenth-century theories of progress elucidated by
Saint-Simonian thought and the philosophy of Auguste Comte, which
posited religion as a symbolic language that could be geared toward
political ends in the name of "progress." The ensuing use of
Islamic language and a simultaneous effort to depict traditional
Islam as backward while using the language of "progress" to
legitimate colonial repression created a complex dissonance that
was reflected in the Muslim opposition to colonial rule. This
dissonance continued in the early days of Algerian independence as
the government sponsored its own idiosyncratic version of
"Progressive Islam" as the religion of state. The contradictions
underlying this vision of religion were never sufficiently
resolved, resulting in the violent failure of the state's ideology.
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