Mohammed Ameziane

Mohamed ben al-Hajj Amezian
محمد بن الحاج أمزيان
Sharif
BornMohammed ben al-Hajj
1859
Segangan, Morocco
Died15 May 1912
Kaddur, Morocco
ReligionSunni Islam
Military career
Battles / warsSecond Melillan campaign (1909)
Kert campaign (1911–1912)

Mohammed ben al-Hajj Amezian (Arabic: الشريف محمد بن الحاج أمزيان; 1859 – 15 May 1912), also known as El Mizzian by the Spanish, was a Moroccan sharif who served as the main leader of the Rifian resistance against Spanish rule in northern Morocco prior to the rise of Abd el-Krim in 1921.