Abdelhak Mrini, also known as Abdelhak El Merini, also spelled as Lamrini or Lemrini, (; 31 May 1934 – 2 June 2025)
was a Moroccan historian, civil servant, and writer.
Biography
Abdelhak Mrini was born in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (political), capital city of Morocco and the List of cities in Morocco, country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. ...
,
he then studied history at the
University of al-Qarawiyyin.
Mrini authored several books and was awarded the Moroccan Book Prize for ''Al-Jaysh al-maghribi abra at-tarikh'' (The Moroccan Army Through History).
Beginning in December 2010, he was the Moroccan government's chief historian,
replacing
Hassan Aourid, and beginning in October 2012, the spokesman of the Royal Palace of
Mohammed VI.
As spokesman for the palace, after having kept to press releases, he spoke for the first time in an article — via the London-based, Arabic-language daily Acharq Al-Awsat in July 2013.
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External links
(in Arabic and French)
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1934 births
2025 deaths
People from Rabat
20th-century Moroccan historians
Advisors of Mohammed VI of Morocco