Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi ( ar, محمد المختار السوسي; 1900–1963) was a Moroccan Berber scholar, politician and writer who played an important role in the years before Morocco's independence in 1956.Charles Olivier Carbonell, "Un historien marocain entre la tradition et la modernité: Mohamed al-Mokhtar Soussi", in: ''Les Arabes et l'histoire créatrice'', by Dominique Chevallier, Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour, p. 133-138 Born in the village of Illigh (close to

Tafraout Tafraout, also Tafraoute ( ar, تافراوت, Shilha ber, ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco, in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains. It had a population of 4,931 at the 2004 census. Nam ...

), he was a

soufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

and an expert on the history of the

Sous The Sous region (also spelt Sus, Suss, Souss or Sousse) ( ar, سوس, sūs, shi, ⵙⵓⵙ, sus) is an area in mid-southern Morocco. Geologically, it is the alluvial basin of the Sous River (''Asif n Sus''), separated from the Sahara desert ...

region and the founder of a school in

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

. From 1956 to 1963 he was minister of religious affairs and member of the Crown Council in the government of Mohammed V.

Works

* L'encyclopédie Al Maâssoul (Le mielleux). * El Illighiat (Memories of exile). * Erramliat (collection of poems). * Souss El Alima (history) * El Maassoul:Tarajim (people of Souss) * A travers Jazoula : travels * Camp du Sud: poetry (manuscript)

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PhD thesis, 2003, by Abdelkabir Faouzi, ''L’enseignement et l’éducation dans l’oeuvre de Mohamed Mokhtar Soussi dans la région du Souss''
(retrieved 22-9-2009) *Ahmed Boukous "Mohammed Mokhtar Soussi, figure emblématique de la difference".in ''Parcours d'intellectuels maghrébins : scolarité, formation, socialisation et positionnements'', Paris, 1999, *El-Adnani, Jillali, "Regionalism, Islamism, and

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Identity: Translocality in the Sûs Region of Morocco according to Muhammed Mukhtar Soussi", in: ''

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East ''Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Comparative Studies on Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It provides a "critical and comparative analyses of the histo ...

'', Volume 27, Number 1, 2007, pp. 41–51 1900 births 1963 deaths 20th-century Moroccan historians Berber historians Berber poets Berber scholars Moroccan Berber politicians Moroccan jurists 20th-century Moroccan poets People from Ifrane Atlas-Saghir People from Tafraout Shilha people {{Berber-stub

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