André Servier was a historian who lived in French Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century.
[2] Servier deeply studied North African customs, Ibn Ishaq's Sira, the Ottoman Empire, and the emerging Panislamic movement alongside rising nationalism in the Maghreb and the Middle East.
Servier saw himself as continuing Louis Bertrand's work, but adapted to the Islamic background.
He had strong opinions about Islam and about the intellectual superiority of European thought and its institutions.
He defended the philosophical thought and work of the Western world as a philosophy founded on the idea of freedom and enlightened reason for mankind.