The historical institutions and their efforts in preserving the Arabic and Algerian manuscripts in the 19th century "The French Orientalist School in Algeria "

Abstract

The French Orientalist School cared about the Arab-Islamic heritage in the manuscript, and the French Orientalists gave special attention to the Arabic and Algerian manuscripts, collecting, preserving, indexing, investigating, and organizing, by searching for them and their sources, and for the same purpose they used all legitimate means (such as buying them from their owners) ... or illegitimate as they stole and seized them and libraries Algerian during the French occupation, and they established libraries, such as the National Library in France and the National Library in Algeria, and established specialized associations and magazines, such as the Asian Journal, the African Journal, the Algerian Historical Society, and others. From the institutions, they also worked on collecting and introducing the Algerian manuscripts scattered throughout the country, and put in it a set of indexes such as the manuscript index in the Algerian Library (Fannian and Tlemcen), and the index of the Arabic manuscripts found in libraries and angles such as past eyes, tasmasin and Ouargla, and the manuscripts index at the angle of the Hamel, and a library Constantine and the Great Mosque. This research aims to highlight the role that this school played in this field, by tracking the work of its orientalists in France and Algeria, and the great efforts that have lasted for more than a century, and they have the credit for collecting and preserving our heritage in good or bad faith, and it is fair that We acknowledge this role because without them we would not know our heritage