Abdelhadi Tazi
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Abdelhadi Tazi 🇲🇦

عبد الهادي التازي (Known as "Dr. Abdelhadi Tazi")
Historian, Diplomat, Royal Academician, Leading Ibn Battuta Scholar
Born Jun 15, 1921 🇲🇦 Fez, Morocco
Passed Away Apr 02, 2015 Rabat, Morocco
Lifespan 93 years old
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Distinguished Moroccan historian, diplomat, and member of the Royal Academy of Morocco, internationally renowned for his 10-volume historical study of the Qarawiyyin and critical edition of Ibn Battuta.

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Graduating from the ancient University of Al-Qarawiyyin and the University of Alexandria, Dr. Abdelhadi Tazi was an early nationalist who was repeatedly imprisoned by the French Protectorate. In independent Morocco, he served as ambassador to Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran.

A polymathic scholar, he authored over fifty major historical studies, including the definitive five-volume critical edition of Ibn Battuta's travels and a three-volume history of Moroccan diplomatic relations with world civilizations.

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Zawiya of Sidi Abdallah Ben Hassoun
Salé, Morocco
GPS: 34.0333, -6.8167
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