Mohammed Daoud
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Mohammed Daoud (also Muḥammad Dāwūd) (1901-1984) was a Moroccan writer and historian.{{Cite book|last=Lawrence|first=Adria K.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/imperial-rule-and-the-politics-of-nationalism/C25DB67F2AABEA1097273FF7D0518556|title=Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-03709-0|pages=169}} He was a major nationalist in northern Morocco during its struggle for independence from occupation by Spanish forces.
Life
Daoud tutored both the caliph, Muley Hassan ben el Mehdi and Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri in Tetouan's palace where they both grew up.Raissouni, Mohammed Muntasir(1995). "Sha'ir El Wazir Mohammed Ben Musa" (Poeta Ministro Mohammed Ben Musa)Rabat, Marruecos: Companía de Publicación Okad p. 40
In 1923, Daoud became the head of a secondary school founded by El Haj Abdesselam Bennouna. He was also a prominent member of the Human Rights League in Tetouan and the Hispano-Muslim Association.Biography by Mustafa Mohamed As-Sa su, Ustad al-gil. al-ra´id al-kabir al-marhum Mohamed Daud fi mahraganih at-ta´biyni, Tetuan : Gami at qudama´Ma had Mulay al-mahdi, 1984 (44 p)
Along with Abdesalam Bennouna, Daoud formed the group al Muslihun (the Reformers) in 1926.
References
[http://www.daoud.site Mohamed Daoud Library Website]
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Category:20th-century Moroccan historians
Category:20th-century Moroccan writers
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