Muhammad al-Muqri
Mohammed el Mokri (* 1851 in Fez, † September 9, 1957 ) was a Grand Vizier in Morocco.
Life
Mohammed el Mokri was a secretary at the court of Sidi Muhammad al -Hassan Moulay IV I. sent him in 1869 as representatives to the opening of the Suez Canal. Sultan Abd al - Aziz sent El Mokri 1906 as a representative for the Algeciras Conference and appointed him in 1908 to his finance minister and later to the Grand Vizier. In Scherifidenreich the Grand Vizier was the chairman of the advisory board of the Vizier - Sultan, a post which he received from all subsequent sultans until 1955. Moulay Abd al - Hafiz appointed him in 1909 to his Finance Minister and Grand Vizier in 1911, 1913 Mokri resigned as Grand Vizier. Moulay Yusuf appointed him again to the Grand Vizier and 1927 he was accepted as such by King Mohammed V..
During the French protectorate over Morocco El Mokri had close social and political relations with Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri, ( Jefe del Gabinete del Jaula ), the right hand of the Jalifas of Spanish Morocco. These social relations held a Moroccan unit of the European protectorate limits in the system of Makhzen. El Mokri led delegations and was received in the Protectorate of Spanish Morocco as a state guest in the palace of Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri. 1948 accompanied Ahmed El Mokri Belbachir Haskouri to Barcelona, where the Ancient of Days by José Ignacio Barraquer was free surgery on cataracts.
1951 El Mokri Belbachir invited to participate in the government of Mohammed V.
When the protectorate France Mohammed V. deported from Morocco and Ben Arafa made to the Sultan, they stopped at El Mokri fixed as Grand Vizier. After Ben Arafa was sold to Tangier, put the protectorate El Mokri as a transitional head of state.
Al Mokri left the political stage in 1955, before the French protectorate ended.
One of his sons Medina Tayeb El Mokri Built in 1906 in Tangier, the El Mokri Palace.
After Mokri, Dar al - Mokri (House of Mokri, also called Point Fixe 3 ), was named a torture center of Hassan II in Rabat.