Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi ( ar, محمد المختار السوسي; 1900–1963) was a Moroccan Berber scholar, politician and writer who played an important role in the years before Morocco's independence in 1956.
[Charles Olivier Carbonell, "Un historien marocain entre la tradition et la modernité: Mohamed al-Mokhtar Soussi", in: ''Les Arabes et l'histoire créatrice'', by Dominique Chevallier, Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour, p. 133-138] Born in the village of Illigh (close to
Tafraout
Tafraout, also Tafraoute ( ar, تافراوت, Shilha ber, ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco, in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains. It had a population of 4,931 at the 2004 census.
Nam ...
), he was a
soufi and an expert on the history of the
Sous region and the founder of a school in
Marrakesh. From 1956 to 1963 he was minister of religious affairs and member of the Crown Council in the government of
Mohammed V.
Works
* L'encyclopédie Al Maâssoul (Le mielleux).
* El Illighiat (Memories of exile).
* Erramliat (collection of poems).
* Souss El Alima (history)
* El Maassoul:Tarajim (people of Souss)
* A travers Jazoula : travels
* Camp du Sud: poetry (manuscript)
See also
*
Mohammed El Moustaoui
*
Mohammed Awzal
Muhammad bin Ali al-Hawzali (, ; 1680–1749) is the most important author in the literary tradition of the Tachelhit language. He was born around 1680 in the village of al-Qaṣaba (Elqeṣba) in tribal territory of the Induzal, in the region of ...
References
External links
PhD thesis, 2003, by Abdelkabir Faouzi, ''L’enseignement et l’éducation dans l’oeuvre de Mohamed Mokhtar Soussi dans la région du Souss''(retrieved 22-9-2009)
*Ahmed Boukous "Mohammed Mokhtar Soussi, figure emblématique de la difference".in ''Parcours d'intellectuels maghrébins : scolarité, formation, socialisation et positionnements'', Paris, 1999,
*El-Adnani, Jillali, "Regionalism, Islamism, and
Amazigh
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Identity: Translocality in the Sûs Region of Morocco according to Muhammed Mukhtar Soussi", in: ''
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East'', Volume 27, Number 1, 2007, pp. 41–51
1900 births
1963 deaths
20th-century Moroccan historians
Berber historians
Berber poets
Berber scholars
Moroccan Berber politicians
Moroccan jurists
20th-century Moroccan poets
People from Ifrane Atlas-Saghir
People from Tafraout
Shilha people
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