Hajj Muhammad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Muqri

Hajj Muhammad al-Muqri hailed from an intellectual family of Oujda and Fez. Joining the royal chancery under Moulay Hassan I, he represented Morocco at the historic 1906 Algeciras Conference. Appointed Grand Vizier in 1908 under Moulay Abd al-Hafid, he held the premiership across five decades under Sultan Moulay Youssef and during the reign of King Mohammed V.

Surviving into Moroccan independence at over 103 years of age, al-Muqri was a living repository of a century of Moroccan political evolution from pre-colonial independence through the Protectorate to national liberation.