'Alawi dynasty
The 'Alawi dynasty (Arabic: سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, Sulālat al-ʿAlawiyyīn al-Fīlālīyn) – also translated in English as Alaouite, 'Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and dynasty.[1]
'Alawi dynasty سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين | |
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Parent house | Banu Hasan |
Country | Morocco |
Place of origin | Tafilalt (migrated from Hejaz) |
Founded | 1631 |
Founder | Moulay Sharif ibn Ali |
Current head | Mohammad VI |
Estate(s) | Morocco |
Legacy
Family tree
'Alawi Dynasty Media
The walls of the Kasbah Cherarda in Fez, a garrison fort built by Mawlay ar-Rashid in order to house some of his guich tribes
Bab Mansour, the monumental entrance to Mawlay Ismail's imperial palaces in Meknes, finished in 1732
The Mausoleum of Mawlay Ismail in Meknes, which contains his tomb and that of his son Ahmad adh-Dhahabi
Gate and fortifications in the port of Essaouira today, founded in 1764 by Sultan Muhammad ibn Abdallah as a port for European merchants
Hassan I in 1873
The abdication of Abd al-Hafid, Sultan of Morocco in 1912, after signing the Treaty of Fes which initiated French colonial rule
Mohammed V in 1934
King Hassan II with future King Mohammed VI, Lalla Asma, and Lalla Meryem (left to right)
References
- ↑ Rézette, Robert (1975). The Western Sahara and the Frontiers of Morocco. Nouvelles Editions Latines. p. 47.
Moulay Rachid who really founded the dynasty in 1664, was born in Tafilalet of a family that had come from Arabia