Archives du Maroc? The official and alternative national archives of Morocco

Ahmed, Sumayya

doi:10.1080/01576895.2018.1558408

Archives and Manuscripts

2018

DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2018.1558408

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Archives du Maroc? The official and alternative national archives of Morocco

Sumayya Ahmed

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Born Digital? Digitization and the Birth of the Moroccan National Archives

Qadim¹

2020

Hist. Afr.

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Abstract:This article examines the digitization policy of Archives du Maroc (AdM), Morocco’s national archival institution, which was set up in 2011 and opened in 2013. Given its recent creation, the AdM lead us to question the particularity of digitization in archiving policies when included from the start rather than retroactively. Through an analysis of the creation and development of AdM as a public policy connected to national efforts at transparency and “good governance,” I argue that digitization has served as a way of performing modernity through technology and international standards, thus reinforcing the legitimacy of a nascent institution.

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Born Digital? Digitization and the Birth of the Moroccan National Archives

Qadim¹

2020

Hist. Afr.

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To the Nation, Belong the Archives: The Search for Manuscripts and Archival Documents in Postcolonial Morocco

Ahmed

2023

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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The trajectory of the Hassan II Prize for Manuscripts, a government initiative begun in the late 1960s to locate rare manuscripts in private collections, is a potent example of the role Arabic-script manuscript culture played in post-colonial nation-building in Morocco. This article presents the history of the Hassan II Prize for Manuscripts, demonstrating how Moroccan bureaucrats used the recovery of archival documents and especially historic manuscripts in Arabic-script, as part of a multi-faceted nation-building project after European colonization. Their project included connecting historic manuscripts to Moroccan identity and territorial sovereignty. It contends that the ramifications of linking these policies with documentary heritage would affect what came to be discovered, valorized, and preserved in the “national collection” and subsequently, what histories could be written.

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Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History

Gaul¹

2021

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

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Archives du Maroc? The official and alternative national archives of Morocco

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Born Digital? Digitization and the Birth of the Moroccan National Archives

Born Digital? Digitization and the Birth of the Moroccan National Archives

To the Nation, Belong the Archives: The Search for Manuscripts and Archival Documents in Postcolonial Morocco

Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History

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