Muhammad Hassan al-Wazzani
Muhammad Hassan al-Wazzani ( Arabic محمد حسن الوزاني, DMG Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Wazzānī ; * 1910 in Ouezzane ; † 1978 ) was a Moroccan nationalist journalist and politician.
Life
In the early 1930s, Mohammed Hassan al-Wazzani was a leader of the Comité d'Action marocaine (CAM) in Fez . In October 1936 he became general secretary of the Bloc d'Action Nationale. Angered by the election of Allal al-Fasis as president of the Maroccan nationalist movement , he left the nationalist movement that same year. In 1937 he founded the Parti Démocratique Constitutionnel (PDC). From 1937 to 1946 Wazzani was a political prisoner. In 1946 he founded the Parti Démocratique de l'Indépendance (PDI), which in 1956 merged with the Hizb al-maghrib al-Hurr (Party of Free Morocco). At times he cooperated with the Istiqlal party. At the beginning of the 1950s he was one of the most important fighters against the French occupation. From 1953 to 1954 he and his party took part in the government of the Front National . Wazzani became Minister of State without portfolio in the coalition government of Hassan II. In 1971 he was wounded in an attempted coup against the king.
Web links
- Mohamed Hassan Ouazzani - biography (Arabic / French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Reich: Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary . 1990, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 196 ( online )
- ↑ Thomas Kerlin Park, Aomar Boum: Historical Dictionary of Morocco . 2006, Scarecrow Press, p. 283 ( online )
- ^ Adnan Musallam: From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb And the Foundations of Radical Islamism . 2005, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 130 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wazzani, Muhammad Hassan al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | محمد حسن الوزاني (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan journalist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ouezzane |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1978 |