Mohammed el Mokri
Mohammed el Mokri , also Muhammad al-Muqri (* 1851 in Fez ; † September 9, 1957 ), was a grand vizier in Morocco .
Life
Mohammed el Mokri was secretary at the court of Sidi Muhammad IV. Mulai al-Hassan I sent him in 1869 as a representative for the opening of the Suez Canal . Sultan Abd al-Aziz sent El Mokri in 1906 as a representative to the Algeciras Conference and in 1908 appointed him his finance minister and later the grand vizier. In the Sherifid Empire , the Grand Vizier was chairman of the sultan's vizier advisory board , a post he received from all subsequent sultans until 1955. Mulai Abd al-Hafiz appointed him his finance minister in 1909 and grand vizier in 1911, and in 1913 Mokri resigned as grand vizier. Mulai Yusuf appointed him again to Grand Vizier and 1927 he was appointed as such by King Mohammed V assumed.
During the French protectorate over Morocco , El Mokri maintained close social and political ties with Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri , (Jefe del Gabinete del Jaula), the right hand of the Jalifas of Spanish Morocco . In the Makhzen system, these social relationships maintained a Moroccan unit across the European protectorate borders. El Mokri led delegations and was received as a state guest in the palace of Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri in the Protectorate of Spanish Morocco. In 1948 Ahmed Belbachir accompanied Haskouri El Mokri to Barcelona , where José Ignacio Barraquer operated on the very old man free of charge on cataracts .
In 1951 El Mokri invited Belbachir to participate in the government of Mohammed V.
When the protectorate power France deported Mohammed V from Morocco and made Ben Arafa sultan, they held on to El Mokri as grand vizier. After Ben Arafa was expelled to Tangier , the protectorate elected Mokri as interim head of state .
Al Mokri left the political stage in 1955 before the French protectorate ended.
One of his sons, Medina Tayeb El Mokri, built the El Mokri Palace in Fez in 1906 .
The Dar al-Mokri (House of Mokri, also called Point Fixe 3), a torture center of Hassan II in Rabat, was named after Mokri .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ life.com Photo of El Mokri in a white djellaba
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Abd al-Mu'min Diuri, réquisitoire contre un despote , París, Albatross, 1972
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mokri, Mohammed el |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fez |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1957 |