Muhammad Torres

Muhammad ibn al-'Arabi at-Torres (; approximately 1820 - September 13, 1908) was a Moroccan diplomat, representative of the sultan in Tangier, and foreign minister of Morocco at the turn of the 20th century. He was present at the 1906 Algeciras Conference, which established French preeminence among European powers in Morocco.

Biography He was qa'id of Casablanca from about 1880.

He then assumed the position of Naib or representative of the sultan in Tangier in 1883, taking over for Muhammad Bargash. The duties of this post involved interlocution between the Makhzen and the European diplomatic bodies in Tangier.

Envoy to the Vatican Torres, sent by Sultan Hassan I to Pope Leo XIII, led the first Moroccan diplomatic mission to the Vatican in 1888.

The position temporarily became less important from the death of Hassan I in 1894 until the death of Ba Ahmed in 1900, when his role of grand vizier was more important.

Algeciras Conference

He served as plenipotentiary representative of Sultan Abdelaziz at the Algeciras Conference of 1906, although Muhammad al-Muqri led the negotiations. They encountered a number of challenges at the conference, chief among which was the matter of language, as they could not understand what was being said. They had to rely on an Algerian translator who was present in the service of France: Abdelqader Ben Ghabrit. as-Slawi had been taken to Algeria by force in the aftermath of the bombardment and invasion of Casablanca.

Torres died in 1908, and was replaced by .

Family Abdelkhalek Torres (1910-1970), nephew. Moroccan journalist and nationalist leader.