Hafidiya In 1907, the French took the murder of Émile Mauchamp in Marrakesh as a pretext to invade Oujda in the east, as they took an uprising against their appropriation of customs revenue in Casablanca as an opportunity to bombard and invade that city in the west. Months later, there was a brief fratricidal civil war referred to as the Hafidiya, in which Abd al-Hafid, at first supported by southern aristocrats based in Marrakesh such as the and later conditionally supported by the ulama of Fes, wrested the throne from his brother Abd al-Aziz, who was supported by the French.
Hafidiya In 1907 the French took the murder of Émile Mauchamp in Marrakesh as a pretext to invade Oujda in the east as they took an uprising against their appropriation of customs revenue in Casablanca as an opportunity to bombard and invade that city in the west Months later there was a brief fratricidal civil war referred to as the Hafidiya in which Abd al-Hafid at first supported by southern aristocrats based in Marrakesh such as the and later conditionally supported by the ulama of Fes wrested the throne from his brother Abd al-Aziz who was supported by the French