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Muhammad al-Fasi
Muhammad al-Fasi was a sharif, said to have come from Morocco, who around 1550 established himself in the Fezzan oases of southern Libya and founded the Awlad Muhammad dynasty. He made Murzuk his capital, and his descendants ruled the Fezzan as sultans, controlling the Saharan caravan route between Bornu and Tripoli until the early 19th century.
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