Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956

Title: Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956
Author: Gavin Maxwell
ISBN: 9780907871149
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
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Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains,

Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century.

Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror. On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, T'hami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Yet in 1956, when the French left Morocco, the Glaoua regime toppled like a pack of cards.