Rabat

الرباط

Capital of Morocco on the Bou Regreg estuary; an Almohad ribat town that became the seat of the Alawite sultans.

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Maghreb
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Home of
Farida Zomorod· Iqbal al-Shirabi
Place of death of
Fatema Mernissi· Hassan II of Morocco· M'hamed el-Khattabi· Muhammad al-Mannuni
Birthplace of
Hassan II of Morocco· Mohammed VI of Morocco· Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco· Said al-Kamali· Younes El Aynaoui

People and things also explored

Mohammed VI of Morocco· Hassan II of Morocco· Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco· Hassan II Mosque· Abd el-Krim· Mohammed V of Morocco· Ajdir· Dar Es Salam Palace, Rabat

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
  • Nomisma.org (Linked Open Data ontology for numismatic concepts)
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islam.museum contributors. “Rabat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/rabat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.

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Mohammed VI of Morocco

King of Morocco since 23 July 1999. Born at Rabat in 1963, the son of Hassan II, whom he succeeded on the throne at his death, he studied law at Mohammed V University and took a doctorate at the University of Nice in 1993, introduced reforms including a new family code, led a restructuring of Morocco's religious field, widened his country's ties across Africa and the world, and signed the 2020 normalisation agreement with Israel.