 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mouha akaberekwa muna 1857 muMiddle Atlas. Baba vake Moha ou Aqqa vaiva mutungamiriri wedzinza reAyt Harkat. Pashure porufu rwaOu Aqqa, mwanakomana wake mukuru, Said, akamutsiva ndokutambanudza kutonga kwake parudzi rwake uye mubatanidzwa weZayane. Mouha akatsiva mukoma wake mushure mekufa kwake, muna 1887. Sultan Moulay Hassan I akapa Mouha zita reQaid muna 1880 kana 1886. Pashure peChibvumirano cheFes 1912, icho chakaisa Marokero pasi peFrench Protectorate, Zayani, ari pamusoro wedzinza reZayanes, akatanga hondo yemagandanga, inozivikanwa seZaian War. Akakwanisa kubatanidza madzinza eBerber akawanda eMiddle Atlas uye akarwa hondo duku. Guta reKhénifra rakarasikirwa nemauto eFrance akanga achifambira mberi muna June 1914, asi muna November wegore iroro, Hondo yeEl Herri yakaitika uye Zayani yakakonzera kurasikirwa kukuru vanenge 600 vakafa pamauto eFrance. Hondo iyi yakazotumidzwa kuti Moroccan Dien Bien Phu zvichireva hondo yakasarudzika muFrench Indochina War.. Pasinei nokukunda, Zayani akakundikana kuchengetedza Khénifra uye akadzokera kunharaunda yeTaoujgalt, kwaakanyorera vamwe varume uye akagadzirira kurwisazve mauto eFrance. Muna Chivabvu 1920, vanakomana vake Hassan naAmharoq avo vaitungamirira dzinza reZayan, vakazvipira kuna General Poeymirau. Musi wa 27 Kurume 1921, Mouha akaurayiwa muhondo paAzelag NTazemourte achipesana nemwanakomana wake Hassan, uyo akatungamira chikwata chezayyani. 