Allal ben Abdallah ben Bachir Zerouali (1916 – September 11, 1953) was a Moroccan laborer who attempted to assassinate the French-installed Sultan, Mohammed ben Arafa.

Allal ben Abdallah ben Bachir Zerouali was born in 1916 in the village of Ouled Salah near Guercif. He was a member of the Houara Oulad Raho tribe.

His father was Abdallah ben Bachir and his mother was Khaira bent Mohamed. He was raised in the village, where he attended a religious school. He married Khadija bent Larbi Belghmi and had a child, Abdallah Zerouali.

The couple moved to Guercif, where he learned dyeing and ran a workshop in the city center where he worked as an artisan painter and as a dry-cleaner.

Ben Abdallah moved with his family to Taza and later to Fes, where he continued working in dyeing and as a shoemaker.

He moved with his family to the El Akkari neighborhood of Rabat in 1947. He began working as a well driller and joined the nationalist Istiqlal Party the same year.

Ben Abdallah met members of National Resistance Movement led by Hajj Ahmed Cherkaoui [fr] and became a local delegate for the Istiqlal in the neighborhood.

He joined the Scoutisme Hassania, a scouting organization founded in 1933, where he began working as an active volunteer member. Ben Abdallah lived a largely modest life, working as a house painter at the time of his attack.