 In their book, "Confreries" (1897), Depont and Coppolani call them "ferocious sectarians," and "puritans of Islam" (p. 504-5).These judgements can be completed by E. Doutte in "L'Islam algerien en 1900", "The Darqawa are thus mendicant derviches.It is a dangerous order, one found in almost all the insurrections that have taken place against governments".