ʿAbd al-Ḥafīẓ b. al-Ḥasan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
El Ayadi, Mohammed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
(1,193 words)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
ʿAbd al-Ḥafīẓ b. al-Ḥasan (d. 1937) was the nineteenth ʿAlawī sultan of Morocco (r. 1908-12). His date of birth is disputed. A son of Sulṭān Ḥasan I (r. 1873-94) and al-ʿĀliya, a daughter of the governor Ṣalāḥ b. al-Ghāzī, he was also known as Mawlāy ʿAbd al-Ḥafīẓ or Mawlāy Ḥafīẓ. He acceded to the throne after his half-brother Mawlāy ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r. 1894-1908) was deposed. After a reign of only four years, however, he himself was forced to abdicate in