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al-Rashīd

ʿAlawī ruler of Morocco
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1672, Marrakech, Mor.

al-Rashīd (died 1672, Marrakech, Mor.) was the founder (1666) of the reigning ʿAlawī (Filālī) dynasty of Morocco. By force of arms he filled a power vacuum that, with the collapse of the Saʿdī dynasty, had allowed half a century of provincial and religious warfare between rival Sufi (see Sufism) marabouts, or holy men, and the rulers of various sheikhdoms. In 1664 Mawlāy al-Rashīd succeeded his brother Muḥammad, who for 30 years had tried to carve out a principality in northeastern Morocco. Obtaining funds through the murder of a wealthy Jew, al-Rashīd gathered a force of Arab and Amazigh (Berber) mercenaries ...(100 of 267 words)

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