Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba"
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Name (Latin)
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba"
Other forms of name
Centre de documentation et de recherche Ahmed Baba
Centre de documentation et de recherches historiques Ahmed Baba
Markaz Aḥmad Bābā lil-Tawthīq wa-al-Buḥūth al-Tārīkhīyah bi-Tinbuktū
CEDRAB
Centre Ahmed Baba
Markaz Aḥmad Bābā lil-Tawthīq wa-al-Buḥūth al-Tārīkhīyah
Associated country
Mali
Field of activity
Manuscripts, African
Manuscripts, Arabic
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Fihris makhṭūṭāt Markaz Aḥmad Bābā lil-Tawthīq wa-al-Buḥūth al-Tārīkhīyah bi-Tinbuktū, 1995-:added t.p. (Centre de Documentation et de recherches historiques Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu)
- banner (Institut des Hautes Études et de Recherches Islamiques Ahmed-Baba de Tombouctou, IHERI-ABT, also in logo; Maʻhad Aḥmad Bābā lil-Dirāsāt al-ʻUlyā wa-al-Buḥūth al-Islāmīyah bi-Tumbuktū, in logo) Mot du Directeur Général (l'IHERI-ABT, created with the support of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) de Dakar, Senegal, and the Centre d'Études Linguistiques et Historique[s] par la Tradition Orale (CELHTO) de Niamey, Niger; the objective was to furnish for UNESCO the sources necessary to write the Histoire Générale de l'Afrique; UNESCO experts met in 1967 in Timbuktu; this meeting organized by UNESCO followed resolution No 3324, adopted in 1966 in the Assemblée Générale in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; conforming to the recommendation of experts, the government of Mali created, by Ordonnance No 12/PGRM du 23 janvier 1970, the Centre de Documentation et de Recherche Ahmed Baba (CEDRAB), which opened its doors on November 8, 1973 and began to build its initial collection; CEDRAB became the Institut des Hautes Etudes et de Recherches Islamiques Ahmed Baba de Tombouctou (IHERI-ABT) in 1999, by Ordonnance No 99-044/ P-RM du 30 septembre 1999 ( (Its website, April 28, 2026:) )
- pages 329-330 (Centre de Documentation et de Recherche Ahmed Baba (CEDRAB), Timbuktu; originally established by a grant from UNESCO as a repository for West African Arabic and African language manuscripts; an ambitious program of prospection, inventory, and purchase of Arabic manuscripts from private collections in Mali began with appointment of Dr. Mahmoud Zouber as Director in autumn 1976; in early 1977 CEDRAB held fewer than 100 manuscripts; the most recent count is about 1000, which includes some items in photocopy form furnished by Yale; an increasing number of private collections are now in the custody of persons who cannot read Arabic, and manuscripts are not being recopied when they become illegible; the Project for the Conservation of Malian Arabic Manuscripts was designed to respond to the urgent conservation situation of these manuscripts, and to aid CEDRAB in carrying out its program ( (JSTOR, Brenner, Louis, and David Robinson. "Project for the Conservation of Malian Arabic Manuscripts." History in Africa 7, 1980, viewed April 28, 2026:) )
- Wikipedia, via www, 9 March 2018:(The Ahmed Baba Institute, officially the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, is a library and research centre in Timbuktu. The centre was founded in 1973, with financing primarily from Kuwait. It was named after 17th-century Timbuktu scholar Ahmad Baba al Massufi)
- Sankore (Tombouctou, Mali), Jan. 1985:t.p. (Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba" (CEDRAB)) p. 2 (Centre Ahmed Baba)
- Fihris makhṭūṭāt Markaz Aḥmad Bābā lil-Tawthīq wa-al-Buḥūth al-Tārīkhīyah bi-Tinbuktū, 1995-:added t.p. (Centre de Documentation et de recherches historique Ahmed Baba, Timbuktu)