Editing Thomas Robert Bugeaud (section)

=== Trade, propaganda and a Fatwa ===
Bugeaud was aware of the potential of economic opportunities that came with French rule as a factor in increasing support for his occupation;<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Bugeaud |first=T.R |title=L'Algérie: des moyens d'utiliser et de conserver cette conquête |publisher=Dentu |year=1842 |pages= |language=French |trans-title=Algeria: ways to use and preserve this conquest}}</ref>

{{quotation|‘The native Americans were defeated by alcohol, the Arabs can be subjugated through trade;  the use of force can [momentarily] defeat them but it cannot lead to lasting domination. Only trade can attach the Algerian population to the French (...) Each Arab Algerian who gets rich is, for the French, one ally gained and one enemy less’|Bugeaud, ''L'Algérie'' (1842)}}

Not only did this strengthen French ties with native Algerians but it also provided propaganda at home that painted the French conquest of Algeria as a moral and civilizing mission ensuring support for his mission from liberal and leftist deputies.<ref name=":1" />

Silvain d’Amboise a French convert to Islam during travels to Mecca, Cairo and Baghdad succeeded in having a fatwa drafted authorising Algerian Muslims to live under French rule, this contradicted an existing fatwa from a Moroccan Imam sought by Abd el-Qadirs which forbade Muslims from living under the rule of the French.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Roches |first=Léon |title=Trente-deux ans à travers l'Islam |publisher=Firmin-Didot |year=1884 |edition=1 |location=Paris |pages=440–441 |language=French |trans-title=Thirty-two years through Islam}}</ref>