Word: shereefian
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...Sultan. "The Sultan is dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
...aged 30 when his brother, abdicating, nominated him as his successor, a choice that the College of Ulemas (wise men, meaning the Mohammedan religious heirarchy) seconded. But Mulai Yusef had had no thoughts of ruling Morocco and thus without any training orexperience he found himself walking under the Shereefian umbrella, the symbol of power in Morocco (equivalent to the sceptre in occidental countries...
...Krim is of course not eligible for a royal title, that honor being confined according to Muhammadan law to direct descendants of the Prophet. It seems unlikely that he desires in any way to undermine the spiritual authority of Mulai Yusef who sits in the shade of the Shereefian Umbrella at Rabat or at his other capitals. But he undoubtedly does resent any interference with the internal affairs of the Riff country and, provided that is assured to him with adequate boundaries as a guarantee, he may well become as good a Shereef as the Empire can boast...
...their area of Morocco caused grave apprehension in France and Italy. The map of Northern Africa depicts four areas whose inhabitants are under the suzerainty of foreign Powers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya. Morocco is mainly under French dominion and is a remarkable example of how low the great Shereefian Empire has fallen; for, still a monarchy, it is subjected to the French Republic and is now of little or no political importance. Algeria and Tunisia are likewise French possessions, while the greater part of Libya belongs to Italy under the name of Tripolitania...
...many years been identified with Morocco. From 1901 (when the then General Lyautey was instructed by the French Government to assist Sultan Abdul Aziz in extending his territories toward the South) to the present day, the name Lyautey has been interwoven in the history of France in the Shereefian Empire. He was appointed Resident General on April 28, 1912 (the month after the Fez Treaty was signed, establishing the French Protectorate over Morocco) and served in that capacity until December 13, 1916, when he returned to France to take command of a unit on the Western Front. Even during...
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