Lords of the Atlas
The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956
Published on 1. December 2012
320 pages
978-1-78060-016-1 (ISBN)
Description
Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of Madani and T’hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror. On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, T’hami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Yet in 1956, when the French left Morocco, the Glaoua regime toppled like a pack of cards.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Author's Foreword
- Table of Principal Events
- Map
- Genealogical Table of the House of Glaoua from the 1960s
- BOOK ONE: Madani El Glaoui
- Chapter 1: The Castle
- Chapter 2: The Cannon
- Chapter 3: Whose King is a Child
- Chapter 4: The Time and the Country
- Chapter 5: The Defeat of Abd El Aziz
- Chapter 6: Madani's Sultan - Moulay Hafid
- Chapter 7: The Hostages
- Chapter 8: The Beginning of the Great Caid Era
- BOOK TWO: T'hami El Glaoui
- Chapter 9: The Golden Years
- Chapter 10: The Glaoui Empire Completed
- Chapter 11: The Image
- Chapter 12: Towards Independence
- Chapter 13: The First March of the Berber Warriors
- Chapter 14: The Deposition of Mohammed V
- Chapter 15: T'hami's Hour
- Chapter 16: The Submission of T'hami
- Chapter 17: The Hand of Allah
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I: The Aftermath - Marrakesh in 1956
- APPENDIX II: Walter Harris's Description of his Dealings with Moulay Hafid after his Deposition
- APPENDIX III: Extract from With Mulai Hafid at Fez by Lawrence Harris (1909)
- APPENDIX IV: Comments on Son Excellence by Members of the Old Regime
- The Documents in Reply
- About the Author
- Copyright
