The IREMAM Documents Archive

IREMAM possesses a documents archive dating back to 1956, which covers the modern Arab world in the humanities and the social sciences, in both Western languages and Arabic. Incorporated into the collections of the médiathèque de la MMSH in 2004, the archive complements those of the Aix-Marseille I University library (Mediterranean Orient 1453-1900), and those of the National Archives’ Overseas Territories Archives Center (colonial period).

These rich collections represent half a century of research in Islamic studies, history, linguistics, law, sociology, anthropology, political sciences, migration flows and international relations in the Arab and Muslim world.

• Special donated collections
  J. Dejeux Collection (Francophone Maghreb literature)

  B. Etienne Collection (political sciences, Islam)
  
J.-R. Henry Collection (Francophone Maghreb literature)
  
J. Lacouture Collection (modern history)
  
J. Luccioni Collection (colonial history of Morocco)
  
R. Mantran Collection (history of the Ottoman Empire)
  
M. Michel Collection (African history)
  
Y. Porter Collection (Middle-Eastern art history)
  
A. Raymond Collection (history of Arab towns)
  
C. Souriau Collection (women in the Maghreb)

• Collections of the official journals of the countries of the Maghreb (post-independence)

Researchers’ private archives
Fonds Y. Bonète (anthropological photographs from Algeria)
Fonds Couleau (manuscripts on agriculture in Morocco)
Fonds J. Desparmet (ethnography and the Arabic language in Algeria)
Fonds L. Golvin (photographs of medieval archeology from Algeria)
Fonds Germaine Laoust-Chantréaux (material and photographs linked to his ethnographic field research in Morocco and Algeria, mostly Kabyle)
Fonds J. Revault (photographs of domestic architecture in Tunisia and Morocco)
Fonds A. Roux (Arab and Berber manuscripts). More...