Finding the Umma: A Conceptual Exploration of Algerian-French Periodicals in the Interwar Period (1930-1939)

“The political becomes epistemological when any political alternative to the current state of affairs is credibly framed in the same way as fancy against fact or as falsehood against truth.” — De Sousa (2018, p. viii) We have seen in the span of human history that the production of knowledge often reveals a skewed pattern, favoring certain narratives over others. Dominant European colonial perspectives have long overshadowed the rich, diverse intellectual traditions rooted in the Global Sout...