Madani El Glaoui

Si El Madani El Glaoui (1860 – 1918), born Madani El Mezouari El Glaoui and nicknamed "the Faqih" ("the Literate"), was a Moroccan statesman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who was largely responsible for establishing the Glaoui family's power in Morocco.¹

The Glaoui family, in the service of the Moroccan Makhzen since the reign of Moulay Ismail, rose under Muhammad IV and his successors.¹ Madani's father was Mohammed Ou Hammou, known as Tibibit, qaid of Telouet, and his mother was Zouhra Oum El Khaïr.¹ When his elder brother Si M'hammed died in 1886, Madani took charge of the family.¹ Sultan Hassan I invested him as his khalifa over several southern provinces, a region stretching from Tafilalt to the Sous.^{2 1}

In the summer of 1907 Madani led the movement at Marrakech that raised Moulay Abdelhafid against his brother Sultan Abdelaziz.² The French article records that the Hafidiya's programme included abolishing the Act of Algeciras, ending the protection regime and the maqs tax, and defending religion, and that Si El Madani was Moulay Hafid's principal political and military support.³ After Fez was taken in May 1908 he was appointed Minister of War (allaf al-kebir), and then Grand Vizier under Abdelhafid.¹ He was dismissed in 1911 at the urging of France, whose increasing influence in Moroccan affairs he had opposed.¹

He died at Marrakech in 1918; the French article gives 14 August 1918, while the English article gives only July of that year.^{3 1}