Abdelhadi Boutaleb

Abdelhadi Boutaleb
Minister of Justice
In office
1964–1967
MonarchHassan II
Prime MinisterAhmed Bahnini
Hassan II
Mohamed Benhima
Preceded byAbdelkader Benjelloun
Succeeded byAli Benjelloun
Personal details
Born23 December 1923
DiedDecember 16, 2009(2009-12-16) (aged 85)
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Abdelhadi Boutaleb (Arabic: عبد الهادي بوطالب, romanizedʿAbd al-Hādī Bū Ṭālib; 23 December 1923 – 16 December 2009) was a Moroccan prolific historian and author, and a politician. He held many ministerial posts in the 1960s and 1970s and was an ambassador of Morocco to Syria, Mexico and the United States. He is also a founding member (alongside Mehdi Ben Barka) of the National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) in 1959, the main Moroccan left-wing political party. He later became a councilor to king Hassan II before retiring political life. He was an alumnus of Al-Qarawiyin.