The 'Alawi dynasty (Arabic: سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, Sulālat al-ʿAlawiyyīn al-Fīlālīyn) – also translated in English as Alaouite, 'Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and dynasty.[1]
↑Rézette, Robert (1975). The Western Sahara and the Frontiers of Morocco. Nouvelles Editions Latines. p. 47. Moulay Rachid who really founded the dynasty in 1664, was born in Tafilalet of a family that had come from Arabia
