Mohammed Daoud

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Mohammed Daoud was a Moroccan writer and historian and a major nationalist in the Spanish occupied Northern Morocco during its struggle for independence. He is the author of the 12 volume Tarikh Titwan (History of Tetouan) and publisher of the magazin Es-Salam. In 1923 he became the head of a secondary school founded by El Haj Abdesselam Bennouna. He was a prominent member of the Human Rights League in Tetouan and the Hispano-Musulmane Association.

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• 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)
• Al-Rasa'il al Mutabadala Bayna 'Allal al Fasi wa Muhammad Dawud, Letters exchanged between Allal al-Fassi and Muhammad Daoud
• Tarikh Titwan (History of Tetouan), Tétouan:Ma’had Maulay al-Hasan, 1979, not only important as historical writing, but also as a corpus of hitherto unpublished private and official documents, particularly for nineteenth century Moroccan history