'Alawi dynasty سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين | |
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Parent house | Banu Hasan |
Country | Morocco |
Place of origin | Tafilalt (migrated from Hejaz) |
Founded | 1631 |
Founder | Moulay Sharif ibn Ali |
Current head | Mohammad VI |
Estate(s) | Morocco |
The 'Alawi dynasty (Arabic: سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, Sulālat al-ʿAlawiyyīn al-Fīlālīyn) – also translated in English as Alaouite, 'Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and dynasty.[1]
Moulay Rachid who really founded the dynasty in 1664, was born in Tafilalet of a family that had come from Arabia