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Muhammad Allal al-Fassi (January 10, 1910 – May 19, 1974), was a Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar. ^[1]

He was born in Fes, Morocco, and founded the nationalist Istiqlal party which was a driving force 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 the nationalist mainstream preferred a diplomatic solution. In 1951, he sent a letter to Si Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri, the right hand man of the caliph in Tetuan, urging him to pevent Morocco from being split into two parts by the time independence is declared. 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.

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. He died in 1974, on a visit to Romania where he was scheduled to meet with Nicolae Ceauşescu.

• In 1925 Al-Fassi published his first book of poems.

• One of Allal al-Fassi's books (published in Arabic in 1948) was translated as The Independence Movements in Arab North Africa (1954).

[edit] References

1. ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Research Inc, Edition: 2, Published by Gale Research, 1998, ISBN 9780787625412, p. 167

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• World biography Biography of Mohammed Allal al-Fassi
• Allal Fassi requests Belbachir's help to prevent Spanish Morocco from seceding once independence is declared: http://4851705960817727869-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/politicalbiographydocuments/Home/GGG004.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cr9K40o-nDP9cFP6YHoJyiG1hWcMFBj9D3xzyBiXKSwh0DFOe91p3l8PNEYdfxryzWZF3eLRuqU--1fccU-jBxTlafYUQnVbFHkiAasDwV-P1Boy8rP5qjbGkaMr4El7FdnQR07GIWV6wrNTQtA0maRORfdDw1ZKWm865iQn9po8qZL9py3V5i6gRrLlsmV489sevCQdK78txjlEHWfjSIWJUumLxv9dAwNWc_65eReWNdyquk%3D&attredirects=0

[edit] See also

• Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi

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