Abd al-Krim

Abd al-Krim ( Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi) (b. 1882, d. 5 Feb. 1963). Moroccan nationalist leader Born in Agadir, he became a newspaper editor and rose through the ranks of the Spanish administration of northern Morocco to become chief judge in 1915. He became increasingly hostile to the Spanish and French occupation of Morocco, however. He was imprisoned by the Spanish in 1917, and after his release he organized a rebellion by his tribe, the Ait Waryaghar. He inflicted a series of ...

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