Orientalismo católico a través de los dichos y tradiciones recogidos por el P. Yves Alliaume en el Sáhara argelino (1926-1975)

We present the figure of Fr. Alliaume and his work Dictons et Traditions, composed of texts—written in French and Algerian Arabic—which were collected in the Algerian desert between 1926 and 1978. In the paper we give an overview of the contents of the twenty-seven dossiers that Fr. Alliaume prepared during the years he lived in the Sahara, with a succinct presentation of the Arabic spoken in the Sahara from the texts. We end with an exposition of some ideas that we consider pertinent in relation to the orientalist vision of the missionary, extracted from these documents.