'Alawi dynasty

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'Alawi dynasty
سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين
Parent houseBanu Hasan
CountryMorocco
Place of originTafilalt (migrated from Hejaz)
Founded1631
FounderMoulay Sharif ibn Ali
Current headMohammad VI
Estate(s)Morocco

The 'Alawi dynasty (Arabic: سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, Sulālat al-ʿAlawiyyīn al-Fīlālīyn) – also translated in English as Alaouite, 'Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and dynasty.[1]

Legacy[change | change source]

Family tree[change | change source]

Monarch Moulay Ali Cherif
Monarch Mohammed IMonarch IsmailMonarch Rachid
Monarch AhmadMonarch Abdul MalekMonarch Abdallah IIMonarch Mohammed IIMonarch AliMonarch Al-Mustadi'Monarch Zin al-Abidin
Monarch Mohammed III
Monarch Al-YazidHishamMonarch Sulayman
Monarch Abd al-Rahman
ibn Hicham
Monarch Mohammed IV
Monarch Hassan IAarafa
Monarch Abd al-AzizMonarch Abd al-HafidMonarch YoussefTaharMonarch Mohammed
Ben Aarafa
Monarch Mohammed V
3° spouse
Lalla Bahia
2° spouse
Lalla Abla bint Tahar
Lalla
Fatima Zohra
Lalla
Amina
Monarch Hassan II
2° spouse
Lalla Latifa Hammou
Lalla
Malika
Lalla
Nuzha
Lalla
Aicha
Abdellah
Lalla
Meryem
Lalla
Asma
Monarch Mohammed VI
spouse
Lalla Salma
Lalla
Hasna
RachidHichamIsmail
Crown Prince
Hassan
Lalla
Khadija

References[change | change source]

  1. Rézette, Robert (1975). The Western Sahara and the Frontiers of Morocco. Nouvelles Editions Latines. p. 47. Moulay Rachid who really founded the dynasty in 1664, was born in Tafilalet of a family that had come from Arabia