Sacred Rivals

In 1839, the Abb? Jacques Suchet was sent to the Algerian city of Constantine, recently conquered by French forces, to minister to the new French colonial population there. He commented favorably on the Arabs'' Muslim religiosity, perhaps seeing them as fertile ground for missionary work. In the mid-1870s, when the Abb? Edmond Lambert toured another colonial Algerian city, he recorded that Arabs w...