Mohamed El Fassi

Mohammad Al-Fasi
Born	1908
Died	1991
Nationality	Moroccan
Education	Paris-Sorbonne University
Alma mater	politician, writer, researcher and historian

Mohamed El Fassi (Arabic: محمد الفاسي) (born 1908 AD, Fez – died 1991 AD) is a Moroccan politician, writer, and Researcher. Mohamed El Fassi is among the signatories of the 11 January document calling for the independence of Morocco. He is the first Minister of Education of Morocco after independence,[1] and also the first Minister of Education in the history of Morocco[2]

Career

The politician and researcher Mohamed El Fassi was born in 1908 in the city of Fez, and began his education there, then joined France and obtained a license from the Sorbonne University, Then a postgraduate diploma from the Institute of Oriental Studies in Paris, and it was imbued with the spirit of patriotism, and the defense of Morocco's issues against French colonialism, So he and a group of his fellow students founded an association to defend his country's case, and with them was one of the founders of the magazine "Maghreb" Morocco, in coordination with the French sympathizers of the national case, He also participated in establishing the North African Students Association, which had a great role in educating young people. After that, he met Prince Chakib Arslan and cooperated with him in defending the Arab case and the Moroccan case in particular.

Positions held before independence

• A professor in Casablanca, and Moulay Youssef High School in Rabat.
• Professor at the Institute for Higher Studies, and the Mawlawi Institute established by the late Muhammad V to educate princes.
• Director of Al-Qarawiyyin University.

Positions held after independence

• Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports in 1955.
• President of the Moroccan University and Scientific Research in 1958 AD.
• Chairman of the Executive Board of UNESCO from 1958 to 1966.
• Member of the Royal Court.

Books

Among the books and investigations of Professor Mohamed El Fassi:

• Flowers of the orchards in the news of Andalusia and Morocco during the era of the Almoravids and the Almohads, by Jean Giro and Tara – Arabization – with the participation of Ahmed Bela Freej.
• Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Meknasi Pages from the history of the West in the eighteenth century.
• Abu al-Abbas al-Jarawi poet of the Almohad caliphate.
• Moroccan folk literature (Al-Malhoun).
• Anas al-Faqir and Izz al-Haqeer by Abu al-Abbas bin Qunfid – investigation.
• The elixir in the jaws of the captive by Ibn Othman al-Meknasi – investigation .
• Anas Al-sari and the sire from the countries of the Maghreb to the end of hopes, interests, non-Arabs and Arabs by Ibn Malih al-Sarraj – investigation.
• The Moroccan Journey (The Journey of Al-Abdari) – An investigation and commentary.
• رباعيات نساء فاس: العروبيات [Rubayat of Fassi Women] (in Arabic and Moroccan Arabic). 1971. p. 133.[3]

Death

El Fassi died in 1991.[4]

References

1. "مركز الدراسات والأبحاث وإحياء التراث". 19 September 2017. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
2. "محمد الفاسي.. وزير التعليم الذي تزوج مليكة الفاسي فأنجبا وزيرا للسكنى – الأخبار جريدة إلكترونية مغربية مستقلة". 27 May 2019. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
3. "IRCAM, رباعيات نساء فاس : العروبيات".
4. "Rubayat of Fassi Women, the pleasue of lyric poetry with the voices of women" (in Arabic). 25 July 2021.

• عطاء الله, فؤاد بن أحمد (2020). "مخطوط "الإباء عن مواقع الوباء" لإدريس بن حسام الدين البدليسي الحنفي، 930 هـ.:, دراسة وتقديماً". مجلة الحوار الثقافي: 129. doi:10.37140/1701-009-002-009. S2CID 230578584.
• وادي, هبة (1953). المسرح العربي في مصر من القرن التاسع عشر الى اوائل القرن العشرين (Thesis). Lebanese American University. doi:10.26756/th.1953.12.