Word: youssef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another wealthy Moor, French Morocco's deposed Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef had enjoyed himself in two worlds. He liked fine automobiles, often wore European dress, sent his sons to French schools. But he also took full advantage of a standard Moslem privilege-plenty of women. He had two wives and 41 concubines, none of whom (according to a close friend) was long neglected...
...ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since he succeeded his father in 1927), but by a new Sultan, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. Ben Youssef had made the mistake of antagonizing the French, and was unceremoniously banished from the land...
Temporize & Hang On. Not so loyal to the French was Sultan Ben Youssef, though as the third son of the previous Sultan he had been hand-picked and tutored for the job by the French. As the Imam (Commander of the Faithful), he had immense authority and a good living: two wives, many concubines, vast estates, 60 automobiles and $200,000 a year spending money. All he had to do was behave. Back in 1943, the French began to suspect that Ben Youssef was getting out of hand. During the Casablanca conference, the Sultan had a meal alone with Franklin...
Childhood. Naguib is a good man with a soldier's virtues. He is descended from fighters. His maternal grandfather, a lieutenant colonel, fought and died alongside Britain's famed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon, in the siege of Khartoum*; his father, Captain Youssef Naguib, marched with Lord Kitchener and a young British war correspondent named Winston Churchill to reconquer the Sudan from the Mahdi. Captain Naguib married a black-eyed Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village...
...Stirring Peoples. The leaders of Istiglal, the independence movement, are on the whole moderate men who prefer pressure to violence. Yet the ferment of Moslem nationalism is reaching west toward Morocco. Last autumn there were election riots. Last week the Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, who was once mistakenly thought to be a safe man for France, dispatched a letter to President Vincent Auriol demanding more local rule...