Source hierarchy
Manuscripts, the Emir’s writings and contemporary documents are distinguished from later scholarship. An old source is not treated as neutral: its author, context and purpose must be considered.
Editorial Method — Emir Abdelkader Collection
Sources · method · credits
Document before interpreting
This collection distinguishes sources produced by the Emir, documents and testimonies from his time, historical scholarship and contemporary publications. Provenance, date, authorship, documentary status and access conditions are stated whenever they can be established.
Bibliographic verification and link review · 14 August 2026
Fact and interpretation
Documented dates, people, works and institutions are separated from editorial connections. Uncertain formulations are qualified, and an unverified attribution is not presented as certain.
Iconography
Each image category is identified as a document, historical work, reproduction or contemporary reconstruction. The register below records provenance, author, date and documentary or legal status when established.
Corrections
A documented correction may amend, expand or remove content. Major editorial interventions are logged so that the site’s evolution remains legible.
Provenance · status · rights
Iconographic register
This register does not turn an image into evidence. It states what each visual is, where it comes from and what documentary use can reasonably be made of it.
Opening visual and chronology portraits
- Nature
- Contemporary visual reconstructions
- Author · date
- Project editorial production · 2026
- Provenance
- Site’s internal visual corpus
- Status
- Non-documentary images. They are not presented as period photographs. Rights documentation is retained at project level.
Resistance and the Smala
- Nature
- Contemporary visual composition
- Author · date
- Project editorial production · 2026
- Provenance
- Site’s internal visual corpus
- Status
- Supporting illustration with no primary-source status. Rights documentation is retained at project level.
Cover of the Kitab al-Mawaqif
- Nature
- Editorial reproduction of a cover
- Author · date
- Edition and photography to be identified
- Provenance
- Local project file
- Status
- Supporting document, not presented as a facsimile. Editorial provenance and rights status remain to be completed.
Abdelkader protecting the Christians of Damascus in 1860
- Nature
- Historical painting · oil on canvas
- Author · date
- Jan-Baptist Huysmans · 1861
- Provenance
- Wikimedia Commons, after a Gros et Delettrez auction catalogue · View record
- Status
- Work and reproduction marked as public domain · Public Domain Mark 1.0.
Archive and Library documents
- Nature
- Digital reproductions of manuscripts and printed works
- Author · date
- Author and date stated in each record
- Provenance
- BnF · Gallica · National Library of Algeria
- Status
- Access and reuse are governed by the conditions of the holding institution named in each record.
Editorial traceability
Corrections log
The log records changes that alter the status of a statement, the historical architecture of the narrative or the understanding of a document.
- 14 August 2026Opening quotationThe wording is now labelled as a “quote attributed to Emir Abdelkader”. No identifiable primary source has yet been established.
- 14 August 2026Chapter IIIThe chapter was refocused on documented spiritual heritage through the sequence “Receive · Know · Act · Transmit”.
- 14 August 2026Critical apparatusChapter-level source notes, a link-verification date and an iconographic register were added.
The collection is evolving. A documented correction may lead to a record being amended, expanded or removed.
Credits and provenance
Remaining uncertainties are identified as such. They are open documentary tasks, not information silently treated as established.