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Idris 1, founder of Al Maghreb (Morocco) and it’s Islamization. He fleed Arabia during the Abbasid Era when his brothers’ Alid rebellion failed and were killed.
According to this article in Wikipedia, it implies that his brother Muhammad might’ve been a Shia.
Ibrahim's rebellion had achieved some initial successes in southern Iraq, but his camp was riven by dissent among rival Shi'a groups as to the prosecution of the war and future political objectives.
Idris 1 was founder of the Idrisid dynasty which according to the wiki page were Zaydi-Shia.
According to Rawd-al-Qirtas and The Muqaddimah, Idris was a Zaydi Shia:
'Other Zaydis say that the imam after Muhammad b. 'Abdallah was his brother Idris who fled to the Maghrib and died there. His son Idris b. Idris seized power and laid out the city of Fez. His descendants succeeded him as rulers in the Maghrib, until they were destroyed, as we shall mention in connection with Idrisid history.'
So according to the above, Idris was a Shia and so was the Idrisid Dynasty.
