Moroccan poet Legend

Leader Issa

Issa bin Omar Al-Abdi was born in 1842. He hails from the Al-Bahatra tribe in the Abda region. He was appointed by his older brother, Muhammad bin Omar, who was a leader, at the beginning of the twenties, as his successor, to actually succeed him after his death in the late seventies of the nineteenth century.

The leader Issa bin Omar was mentioned in many sources, some of which refer to what the French journalist Eugène Le Pen said about him after a visit to Abda in 1902 as “one of the greatest presidents of Morocco and that his family inherited the rule for 60 years” and that “Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz extended his term With Dahir to extend his authority over Doukkala, Hamra, and Al-Shayadimah, to be added to his slaves.

Commander Issa was famous for his brutality and cruelty, as his forces brutally suppressed the uprising of the "Awlad Zayd" tribe to which Kharboucha belonged in the middle of 1895, and these events of repression were known as the year of "Al-Rafsa", and due to the severity of his might, the historian Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Subaihi described him as Hajjaj bin Youssef Al-Thaqafi in his book. Issa bin Omar and his atrocities.

The irony is that the leader, despite his tyrannical and bloody personality, was known for his passion for the art of the ayah and traditional singing, so he provided him with a suitable space in his qasbah (majlis) for the circulation and development of some “youths”, and the sheikhs and sheikhs proliferated during his reign and within his ayaat.