André Servier was an historian who lived in French Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century. Career He was chief editor of La Dépêche de Constantine, a newspaper from the city of Constantine in northeastern Algeria. Servier studied well the customs and manners of the North African people, becoming one of the few French intellectuals who studied in depth Ibn Ishaq's Sira. His research included the Ottoman Empire and the Panislamic movement. The latter was developing at that time, along with the rise of nationalist ideals in the Magrebian areas and the Middle East. Servier saw himself as continuing Louis Bertrand's work, but adapted to the Islamic background. Thought Analysing the budding nationalist movements, Servier wrote about the Egyptian Nationalist Party that it: A defender of Modernity and European colonization, 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 fervently defended the philosophical thought and work of the Western world as a philosophy founded on the idea of freedom and enlightened reason for mankind. Today his works are circulated among critics of Islam. Quotes 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 People from Constantine, Algeria 20th-century French historians French critics of Islam French political scientists French sociologists Pieds-Noirs Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown French male writers