Ait Ishaq Explained

Official Name:Aït Ishaq
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Morocco
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Béni Mellal-Khénifra
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Khénifra
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2004
Population Total:11806
Timezone:WET
Utc Offset:+0
Timezone Dst:WEST
Utc Offset Dst:+1

Aït Ishaq is a town in Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco. Ait Ishak is a Moroccan Berber village in central Morocco.Ait Ishaq belongs to the province of Khenifra and is 25 km south of its capital.It includes the Ait Ishak Center in its 19 suburbs.36,652 people (according to the 2021 census).This city was the oldest region in Morocco in the middle of the eleventh century AH, the capital of the Emirate of Daliyah. It was founded by Muhammad al-Hajj al-Dulai and began building it on Sunday 16 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1048 AH - July 28, 1638 AD. At that time, it was not called by this name, but was called Zawiya Al-Daliyah, and it continued to bear this name until it was seized and destroyed by Sultan Al-Mawla Al-Rashid in 1079 AH - 1668 AD, where it remained after that as a ruin and ruins here and there. So, the Good Lord transferred the Jews of this city to the city of Fez to activate the economic activity there and built for them the Ibn Danan Synagogue.

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  1. Web site: "أيقونة الأطلس" حادة أوعكي في "قصص إنسانية" مساء الأحد. 2021-01-11. 2M. ar.