The role of the sheikhdom in activating state authority in Algeria during the Ottoman period (16-19 AD)

Abstract

This article highlights one of the social and political institutions that formed the state institutions of Ottoman rule. It shows the regime 's bilaterality vis - à - vis society. The Maschikhat (tribal chief) was one of the pillars of Beylicat, especially in rural areas, is simultaneously a political and social phenomenon of Algerian society during the Ottoman period; This institution still reflects the spirit and the mental reality lived, in economic and socio-cultural terms. It is thus that the real practices of power and the dimension of its control over the domains are defined, as well as the rank of the economic scale through the administrative and political exercise towards the state of the regency of Algiers.