“The people of the North have previously known the violence of the crown prince; it will be best for them not to know that of the king’s.” It is in this way that Hassan II (1961-1999) addressed himself to the inhabitants of northwest Morocco—and to the rest of the population—in reaction to the r..
Nabil Mouline
Nabil Mouline is a senior researcher in The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is the author, among other works, of Le Califat imaginaire d’Ahmad Al-Mansûr [The Imaginary Caliphate of Ahmad Al-Mansûr] (PUF, Paris, 2009) and The Clerics of Islam: Religious Authority and Political Power in Saudi Arabia (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014).