Haidar Bammate archive collection opened to digital access
The Haidar Bammate archive collection at IRCICA has been made digitally accessible and launched with a meeting held on 11 May 2026. Haidar Bammate (1890-1965), was one of the leaders of the Caucasus independence movement that led to the foundation of the Republic of Northern Caucasus in 1918 and served as its Foreign Affairs Minister. His collection, an invaluable primary source about the period, consists of archival materials (in total 3400 items) and printed materials (1600 items) belonging mainly to Haidar Bammate, including some from his father Necmettin Bammate and additions by his son Dr. Necmettin Bammate. The latter, a scholar in law at the Sorbonne, author on Islamic culture, and the OIC Representative in Paris, bequeathed the collection to IRCICA a few months before his death in 1985. It was delivered to IRCICA by his younger brother Timur Bammate, with the request to keep it unopened for twenty years due to then delicate international circumstances.
