Moulay Yusef ben Hassan (Arabic: مولاي يوسف بن الحسن), born in Meknes on 1882 and died in Fes in 1927, was the 'Alawi sultan of Morocco from 1912 to 1927.
[2] He inherited the throne from Sultan Abd al-Hafid, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez (1912), which made Morocco a French protectorate.
Moulay Yusef's reign was turbulent and marked with frequent uprisings against Spain and France, of which two were serious: the Rif War and the Sahrawi rebellion.
The second was an uprising of the Hasani-Sanhaja Sahrawis in the French colony in the south, which was led by Ahmed al-Hiba, the son of Ma al-'Aynayn.
The Rif War eventually reached the French colonial region, prompting the creation of a Franco-Spanish military coalition that finally defeated the rebels in 1925.
[7] Before this marriage she was the wife of Sultan Moulay Abdelhafid, but divorced from the latter; A woman whose identity is unknown who is either his slave concubine or one of his wives.