French expropriation of Algerian waqf land served the wine industry

Evidence

It may not be a detail, or without irony, that much of the fray over Algerian land, and the consequent campaign against the waqf, had to do with coveting chunks of Algerian territory for cultivating vineyards for the production of the much-beloved French wines, an intoxicant prohibited by sharʿi precepts. As genocides will become relevant for us later, it is no detail that by 1962, close to a million Algerians lost their lives to French colonialism, most having been unarmed civilians, including a large proportion of women and children. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 246 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French law retroactively legalized settlers’ forcible seizure of Algerian waqf land; French colonial expropriation of Algerian land partly served winemaking, an activity Islam prohibits — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 246; The French wine industry displaced Muslim subsistence farming in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 184 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• French colonial expropriation of Algerian land partly served winemaking, an activity Islam prohibits #expands (0.92) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 246