Yusef of Morocco

Moulay Yusef ben Hassan, born in Meknes on 1882 and died in Fes in 1927, was the 'Alawi sultan of Morocco from 1912 to 1927. He was the son of Hassan I of Morocco, who was the son of Muhammad IV of Morocco. Life Moulay Yusef was born in the city of Meknes to Sultan Hassan I. The identity of his mother is conflicted, some sources state that Lalla Um al-Khair, whose last name is not recorded, is his mother, since she is the mother of his twin brother, Moulay Mohammed al-Tahar. Other sources state Lalla Ruqiya al-Amrani as his mother; her son was Sultan Abd al-Hafid. She often is confused with be Ayesha the Circassian or Georgian slave bought in Syria by the vizier Sidi Gharnat and brought to his father's harem circa 1876. Moulay Yusef was the youngest of Sultan Hassan I's sons. He inherited the throne from Sultan Abd al-Hafid, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez (1912), which made Morocco a French protectorate.