Kouloughlis

Kuloughlis

Total population
unknown
Regions with significant populations
Arab World
Languages
Arabic Turkish
Religion
Sunni Islam

Kouloughlis, also spelled Koulouglis, Cologhlis and Qulaughlis (from Ottoman Turkish kuloğlu "children of servants", kul "servant" + oğlu "son of") was a term used during the Ottoman period to designate the creole offspring of usually Turkish men and Arab women.

The phrase comes from the fact that the rulers of the Ottoman Empire conquered much of Arab world and sent Turkish people to Ottoman Algeria, Ottoman Egypt, Ottoman Libya, and Ottoman Tunisia. Unlike the Franco-Algerians (pieds-noirs) and the North African Jews, descendants of the Kouloughlis have largely integrated into their local societies after independence.

See also

• Pied-Noir
• Arab-Berber
• Turks in Algeria
• Turks in Egypt
• Turks in Libya
• Turks in Tunisia

Bibliography

• Boyer, Pierre (1970), "Le problème Kouloughli dans la régence d'Alger", Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée 8: 77–94 
• Daumas, Eugène (1943), Women of North Africa: or "The Arab Woman", Indiana University Press, ASIN B0007ETDSY .
• Lorcin, Patricia M. E. (1999), Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253217822 .
• Ruedy, John Douglas (2005), Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253217822 .