Abstract: This article seeks to study a very important historical stage in Mauritanian history, which has remained a subject of controversy and discussion among researchers and scholars of all walks of life and multiple ideas. Therefore, this article presents a new vision of colonialism through Nawasili texts with different orientations and ijtihad visions about the colonial phenomenon, the limits of dealing with the French, and the available options. In this direction, in a country that did not know any unifying authority for the people of the field except the Almoravid state in the fifth century AH, and in general, we wanted to present these texts without going crazy or omissions that might be outside the text or understanding the conditions with a view that goes beyond reality in its analyzes and conclusions about the authoritarian imagination and dealing with colonialism. In an understanding that is not devoid of realistic and diligent approaches that look at various contexts, no matter how numerous or different they are.

Keywords: Historical texts – scholars and jurists – French colonialism – Mauritania.