It was mentioned in the book "The History of Tetouan" for the historian "Muhammad Dawud" the message of Sultan Abdul Rahman bin Hisham (and it was mentioned in references in the royal messages exchanged between Sultan Muhammad bin Hisham and the leader of Tetouan Ashash indicating the wearing of the Tetouans to the caftan, including: Ashash is to pay the horses of the people of Tetouan, who come from our presence a caftan file, for each one of them. ”) This indicates that we are the ones who gave the caftans to those who came to the city of Tetouan from the Algerians. Wrong, and I will explain it in my subsequent articles, and we will reveal a great deal about the gloom of the Algerians in trying to attribute a piece of our heritage to them.
And a number of foreign painters, including French and Spanish, painted Moroccan women wearing the Moroccan caftan in several paintings. Among the painters who created these paintings, we mention Jean-François Portaels, who have mastered the drawing of beautiful portraits of Aouissia Moresque in the Moroccan caftan in the city of Tangier, Also Eugène Delacroix, who also created paintings in the rest of Morocco, displaying in his paintings the various traditional clothes worn by Moroccan women.
According to some ancient researchers in Moroccan history, the caftan was made during the reign of the Marinid dynasty and was worn only by the Marinid sultans without the common people, and the legacies of this custom, the dynasties that ruled Morocco to the Sa’dis at the time, became available for wearing by the commoners from the Moroccans and those men were The country and this point was mentioned in the book “The Algerians in Tetouan Page 127” “As for its spread and popularity in Moroccan society, it started in the era of the Sa’idis” and it was mentioned after the message of Sultan Abdul Rahman bin Hisham addressed to the worker of Tangier Ashash, these references and drawings that I review Before you in this article, you prove that the caftan is 100% Moroccan.
