The same applies elsewhere in Algeria, and the explanation is, in part, that the Algerian Revolution was, from the beginning, a movement of collectivity: of collective leadership, of collective suffering, and collective anonymity. Thus, deliberate efforts have been made to veer away from anything resembling a cult of the individual hero or martyr. There is, additionally, a more general factor in that the Arab tradition holds a concept of history that is rather different from the European.

XREF: Connects to broader historiographical contrasts between Arab and European conceptions of history, and postcolonial scholarship on collective identity.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 15