They entered Morocco at the end of the 13th Century when Al Hassan Addakhil, who lived then in the town of Yanbu in the Hejaz was brought to Morocco by the inabitants of Tafilalet to be their Imam and to help in the improvements of their crops thanks to his Barakah as he was from the offspring of the prophet Mohammad. They began to increase their power in southern Morocco during the anarchy following the deat ...

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Alaouite Dynasty, Alaouite Dynasty - Descendance, Alaouite Dynasty - Conquest

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