About the Author:

Zhang Chuchu (born 1989) — Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2019. His main research areas include the Belt and Road Initiative and infrastructure, Middle East and North Africa politics, and national security. In 2015 he conducted research at King Abdulaziz University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and in 2016 at the Maghreb Research Center in Tunisia through exchange programs.

In recent years, he has published more than 20 academic articles in leading national and international journals and written over 60 policy commentaries. He has published one monograph in English and has received awards supporting a major project of the National Social Science Fund and a youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation.

Summary:

This book is a scholarly study devoted to the issue of religious policy in Algeria. Drawing on field research and analysis of academic literature, the author dynamically examines how religious policy in Algeria has been formed and developed across different historical stages. The work analyzes religious-political processes at both micro and macro levels, revealing the country’s distinctive political and ecological characteristics.

Although the study is based on the case of Algeria, its conclusions are not limited to a single country or region. The author seeks to explain religious policy at a general theoretical level and offers projections regarding Algeria’s future political and religious trajectories.