Mohammed Ben Aarafa

Mohammed Ibn Arafa (* 1889 in Fez, † July 17, 1976 in Nice ) was from 1953 to 1955 the Sultan of Morocco. He was employed by the French government as the ruler of Morocco after his cousin, the reigning sultan of Morocco, Mohammed V, had been overthrown by the French Protectorate administration.

His parents were Mulay Arafa bin Muhammad, the temporary caliph of Fez, and his second wife Lalla Nufissa bint Glawi, from the Berber Glaoui clan, whose head Thami El Glaoui was. He was proclaimed in Marrakech on August 15, 1953 to the Imam. From the French protectorate authority he became the Sultan of Morocco, Sultan of Fez, Tafilet, Marrakech and Sus al -Aqsa and proclaimed Amir al- Mu'minin. He was born on December 10, 1953 set at the Dar al - Makhzen (House of Makhzen ) in Rabat as a French puppet on the throne. His unfounded territorial claims were almost invariably rejected by the Moroccan society. Even the Protectorate of Spanish Morocco recognized his government not to. There were waves of strikes, as a result, he entrenched himself on October 1 in the international Tangier, resigned on 30 October 1955, and went into exile in France. He was decorated by the French President with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.