{"id":5000,"date":"2025-07-14T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:40:48","slug":"telouet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/telouet\/","title":{"rendered":"Telouet and the Lords of the Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first inhabitants of Telouet were Berber shepherds who lived in caves on the slopes of the nearby mountains. Over time, Telouet became an ethnically mixed territory. Very early on, Jews settled here, becoming mainly salt wholesalers and craftsmen. In the Middle Ages, Arabs arrived in Telouet with the wave of Islamisation of Morocco. This population built\u00a0medersa<\/em>Koranic schools and\u00a0zawiya<\/a>\u00a0specifically for Islamic theological teaching. Famous marabouts such as Sidi Ouarghal, Sidi Ouissa\u00e2den and Sidi Daoud settled in the region. As for the black-skinned population\u00a0Haratine<\/em>It is made up entirely of black slaves from Mali, Guinea, Sudan and other African countries. This ethnic group was transported by trans-Saharan caravans to the interior of Morocco, as in Telouet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, this douar was an essential crossing point for ancient trade caravans crossing the Telouet pass, Tizi N'Telouet. Telouet was also a crossing point for military expeditions such as the one led by\u00a0Ahmed El Mansour Eddahbi<\/a>\u00a0to Sudan in 1590.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 17th<\/sup>\u00a0century, the arrival of the Glaoua family in the region was a turning point in the history of Telouet. According to some sources, this family descended from a marabout called\u00a0Mohamed Ou Saleh\u00a0<\/em>originally from the Asfi region and originally from the\u00a0Umayyad dynasty<\/a>. On their arrival in Telouet, the Glaoua built a zawiya. They distributed indulgences and blessings called\u00a0the baraka\u00a0<\/em>inherited from one of their ancestors. Once they had gained religious influence, their political ambitions grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century, the\u00a0Sultan Moulay Ismail<\/a>\u00a0granted the title of ca\u00efd to the Glaoua to control the caravan route and extract the right of passage. In 1893, the Sultan\u00a0Moulay El Hassane<\/a>Hassan, also known as Hassan 1st, commanded a military expedition.\u00a0harka<\/em>southwards to subdue the rebellious tribes or the dissent of the\u00a0Bled Es-Siba<\/em>. On his return, the Sultan and his army were surprised by the snow at Telouat.\u00a0El Madani El Glaoui<\/a>\u00a0is organising a\u00a0diffa<\/em>a grand reception in their honour. In recognition of this hospitality, the sultan granted El Madani the right to collect taxes from the surrounding tribes and to levy taxes on passing caravans. The sultan also gave him weapons, in particular a Krupp cannon, which is currently on display in the Taourite kasbah. In 1908, El Madani El Glaoui was appointed Minister of War,\u00a0Ouazir Alharb<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise to power of the Glaoua made Telouet a residence for the new ca\u00efds and a command post in the south. Construction of the kasbah of Telouet, the castle of the new lords, began in the 18th century.th<\/sup>\u00a0century with a Berber architectural style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 19th<\/sup>\u00a0and the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0In the 19th century, Oriental and Moorish-Spanish styles were introduced into the extension of the kasbah. It was an institution of command in its own right and a place of seigneurial life par excellence, housing a court of justice, a prison, a residence, a court of festivities, a stable... The famous\u00a0Lhaj Thami El Glaoui<\/a>\u00a0also lived in the kasbah of Telouet. He was a ca\u00efd of great economic power, having acquired numerous landholdings and shares in Omnium Nord Africain and CTM. A man of refined taste, Lhaj Thami played golf in Marrakech and collected carpets and precious stones. Above all, he welcomed illustrious personalities such as Resident General Steeg, Sultan Sidi Mohamed on 16 November 1931, Winston Churchill in 1937, General Patton in 1942, Jacques Majorelle, Lyautey and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the kasbah is succumbing to the vagaries of the weather and to oblivion. Only the main residence and a few outbuildings remain, still well preserved enough to welcome the curious gaze of visitors, revealing the finesse and beauty of the craftsmen of yesteryear, the refinement of the old masters and the way of life of a population that no longer exists. Every corner of the kasbah is a page in the human history of Telouet of yesteryear, and within its walls lies the story of those ca\u00efds who, history will record, were known as the\u00a0Lords of the Atlas<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Les premiers habitants de Telouet sont des berb\u00e8res pasteurs qui logeaient dans des grottes au flanc des montagnes voisines. Au fil du temps, Telouet devient un territoire de brassage ethnique. Tr\u00e8s t\u00f4t, les juifs s\u2019y sont install\u00e9s pour devenir en majorit\u00e9 des grossistes de sel et des artisans. Au moyen \u00e2ge, les arabes arrivent \u00e0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksarighnda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}