A 1907 court ruling forced individual naturalization for Senegalese citizenship

Evidence

Since Roume’s first attempt to have a naturalization law passed in I907, a Cour de Cassation ruling of July 24, 1907, had established that the Senegalese of the Four Communes could be considered citizens only if they were individually naturalized (which meant, for Muslims, giving up what the French called “leur statut personnel” and accepting the provisions of the Civil Code I. It was thus now possible to go ahead and establish the legal criteria for acquiring citizenship. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1159

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did requiring Muslims to abandon their personal status for citizenship work in practice, and what were the long-term consequences?