Leo Africanus

Leo Africanus

male, deceased (1554)
Leo Africanus was the Christianised name of Hasan bin Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi (Hasan, son of Muhammed, the Weigher from Fez) (Granada 1488? -...

Ibn Bajjah

male
Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh, known as Ibn Bājjah, was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim philosopher, poet and physician who was known in the...
Fatema Mernissi

Fatema Mernissi

female, 69 years old
Fatema Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Born in Fez in 1940, she studied political science at the Sorbonne and at Brandeis...
Princess Lalla Salma Of Morocco

Princess Lalla Salma Of Morocco

female, 31 years old
Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco is the wife of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly...

Abraham Saba

male, deceased (1508)
Abraham Saba (1440-1508) was a preacher in Castile who became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain he took...

Judah ben David Hayyuj

male, deceased (1000)
Judah ben David Hayyuj was a Spanish-Jewish grammarian; born in Fez, Morocco, about 945. At an early age he went to Cordoba, where he seems to have...
Elijah Benamozegh

Elijah Benamozegh

male, deceased (1900)
Elijah Benamozegh (born at Livorno in 1822; died there February 61900) was an Italian rabbi. His father (Abraham) and mother (Clara), natives of...
Yusef Of Morocco

Yusef Of Morocco

male, deceased (1927)
Sultan Yusef ben Hassan ruled the French Protectorate of Morocco from 1912 until his death in 1927. Born in the city of Meknes to Sultan Hassan I,...
Abdelaziz Of Morocco

Abdelaziz Of Morocco

male, deceased (1943)
Abdelaziz of Morocco succeeded his father Hassan I of Morocco as the sultan of Morocco from 1894 at the age of ten until he was deposed in 1908. He...

Juan de Valladolid

male
Juan de Valladolid (English: "John of Valladoid") (1420-?), also known as Juan Poeta ("John the poet"), was a Castilian poet. Born Jewish, he...