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Muhammad Allal al-Fassi (January 10, 1910 – May 13, 1974), was a Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar.[1]

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Allal Al Fassi علال الفاسي
Allal Al Fassi in 1949
Born	10 January 1910 Fes, Morocco
Died	May 13, 1974(1974-05-13) (aged 64) Bucharest, Romania
Nationality	Moroccan
Political party	Istiqlal

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Politics

He was born in Fes, Morocco. He studied at the University of Al-Qarawiyyin. For many years, his professor and mentor was Abdeslam Serghini. He founded the nationalist Istiqlal party which was a driving force after the Moroccan Army of Liberation (jaish at-tahreer), with many Berbers, in the Moroccan struggle for independence from French colonial rule. He broke with the party in the mid-1950s, siding with armed revolutionaries and urban guerrillas who waged a violent campaign against French rule, whereas most of the nationalist mainstream preferred a diplomatic solution. In 1956, as Morocco gained independence, he reentered the party, and famously presented his case for reclaiming territories that have once been Moroccan in the newspaper al-Alam. In 1959, after the left-wing UNFP split off from Istiqlal, he became head of the party.[2]

In 1962, he briefly served as Morocco's Minister of Islamic Affairs. He was elected to the Parliament of Morocco in 1963, and served there as an Istiqlal deputy. He then went on to become a main leader within the opposition during the 1960s and the start of the 1970s, campaigning against King Hassan II's constitutional reforms that ended parliamentary government. He died of a heart attack on 13 May 1974,[3] on a visit to Romania where he was scheduled to meet with Nicolae Ceaușescu.[4]

Literature

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In 1925 Al-Fassi published his first book of poems. In 1954 his The Independence Movements in Arab North Africa was published, a translation of a book he wrote in Arabic in 1948.

See also

• Allal al Fassi Dam

References

External links

• World biography Biography of Mohammed Allal al-Fassi
• Encyclopedia.com Biography of Mohammed Allal al-Fassi

See also

• Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi

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