Established by Khedive Tawfiq in 1881 as a body within the Ministry of Endowments, Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe inventoried and restored many Islamic and Coptic monuments in Egypt. In 1936, the committee was brought under the Ministry of Education, where it functioned until its dissolution in 1961. Its responsibilities were then taken over by the Permanent Committee for Islamic and Coptic Monuments of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, now known as the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

See:

The Bulletins of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe 1882-1961. Islamic Art Network. http://www.islamic-art.org/comitte/Comite.asp.