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Hassan II

(Encyclopedia)Hassan II hä´sän [key], 1929–99, king of Morocco (1961–99). Formerly crown prince Moulay Hassan ben Mohammed Alaoui, he ascended the throne on the death (1961) of his father, Muhammad V. A grad...

Hassan

(Encyclopedia)Hassan häsän´ [key], d. 1894, sultan of Morocco (1873–94). He brought the weak and disorganized country firmly under his control and held in check attempts by European powers at domination. He pl...

Rouhani, Hassan

(Encyclopedia)Rouhani, Hassan: see Rowhani, Hassan.

Rowhani, Hassan

(Encyclopedia)Rowhani, Hassan häsän´ rhän´ [key], 1948–, Iranian cleric and political leader, b. Sorkheh, studied Semnan and Qom seminaries, Tehran Univ. (law degree, 1972), Glasgow Caledonian Univ. (D.P...

Nasrallah, Hassan

(Encyclopedia)Nasrallah, Hassan hä´sn näsrä´lä [key], 1960–, Lebanese political and religious leader. A Shiite Muslim cleric, he became politically active in the 1970s and joined the Amal militia. After I...

Zewail, Ahmed Hassan

(Encyclopedia)Zewail, Ahmed Hassan, 1946–2016, Egyptian-American chemist, b. Damanhur, Egypt, Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1974. He became a U.S. citizen in 1982. A professor at the California Institute of Techno...

Muhammad V

(Encyclopedia)Muhammad V (Sidi Muhammad ibn Youssef), 1910–61, king of Morocco (1957–61). He succeeded his father, Moulay Youssef, as sultan in 1927. An ardent nationalist, he was deposed and exiled (1953) by t...

Muhammad VI

(Encyclopedia)Muhammad VI, 1963–, king of Morocco (1999–), formerly Muhammad ben Al-Hassan, crown prince Sidi Muhammad. He studied at Muhammad V Univ., Rabat, where he received bachelor's (1985) and master's (1...

Majid, Ali Hassan al-

(Encyclopedia)Majid, Ali Hassan al- ä´l h´sän äl-mäjd´ [key], 1941–2010, Iraqi general and Ba'athist, cousin of Saddam Hussein. After Hussein took power (1979), Majid played a pivotal role in the Ba'...

Turabi, Hassan Abdallah al-

(Encyclopedia)Turabi, Hassan Abdallah al- hä´sän äbdä´lä äl-toorä´b [key], 1932–2016, Sudanese religious and political leader, b. Kassala, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (now Sudan). He studied law in Sudan a...