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It is, perhaps, not very useful to generalize about the “climate” for research in Morocco, which quite obviously varies according to the type of research to be undertaken, and the general situation in the country or in the government agency with which the researcher may wish to work. What can be said is that no topic is a priori off-limits, and that, for the time being at least, the visiting scholar probably has a better chance to conduct his research successfully in Morocco than in most of the other Arab countries.
1 For Rabat, see Allouche, I.S. and Regragui, A., Catalogue des Manuscrits Arabes de Rabat, 2 vols. Vol. 1, Paris: Librairie Orientale et Américaine (1954); Vol. 2, Rabat: Editions Techniques Nord-Africaines (1958).Google Scholar
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Outside of Morocco, a card index of North African manuscripts is being compiled by Comité d’Edition d’Inventaires de Manuscripts Maghrébins, Kortrijkesesteenweg 39, Ghent, Belgium.
2 A first publication, based on 1,000 documents, became available in Oct. 1969; CND, Index Retrospectif No. 1: 0001-01000; Agriculture. Several more issues are in press.
3 The first issue, Bibliographie Selective sur l’Amemagement du Territoire No. 1, May, 1970; the second, in press, is, Bibliographie sur l’Urbanisme et l’Habitat au Maroc.
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