Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi (Arabic: 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.^[1] Born in the village of Illigh (close to Tafraout), he was a soufi and an expert on the history of the Sous region and the founder of a school in Marrakesh. From 1956 to 1963 he was minister of religious affairs and member of the Crown Council in the government of Mohammed V.

Works[edit]

• 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)

See also[edit]

• Mohammed El Moustaoui
• Mohammed Awzal

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• 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, ISBN 2-86537-997-3
• El-Adnani, Jillali, "Regionalism, Islamism, and Amazigh Identity: Translocality in the Sûs Region of Morocco according to Muhammed Mukhtar Soussi", in: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 27, Number 1, 2007, pp. 41–51