Abdallah of Morocco
| Moulay Abdallah | |||||
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| Sultan of Morocco | |||||
| Reign | 1729-1734 | ||||
| Predecessor | Abu'l Abbas Ahmad II | ||||
| Successor | |||||
| Reign | 1736-1736, 1740-1741, 1741-1742, 1743-1747, 1748–1757 | ||||
| Predecessor | Abdalmalik | ||||
| Successor | Sidi Mohammed III | ||||
| Born | 1694 Meknes, Morocco | ||||
| Died | 10 November 1757 Dar Debibagh | ||||
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| House | Alaouite dynasty | ||||
| Father | Ismail Ibn Sharif | ||||
| Mother | Lalla Khanatha bint Bakkar | ||||
Moulay Abdallah (1694 – 10 November 1757) (Arabic: مولاي عبدالله بن عربية بن إسماعيل الثمين) was the Sultan of Morocco in the years 1729–1734, 1736, 1740–1741, 1741–1742, 1743–1747 and 1748–1757.[1]
He was born in 1694 as a son of Sultan Moulay Ismail by one of his wives Dowager Sultana Lalla Khanatha bint Bakkar. He ascended the throne numerous times, fighting his half-brothers. Moulay Abdallah was first deposed in 1734 by the Abid Al-Bukhari who secretly were plotting his deposition and assassination.[2] Upon hearing of their plan he managed to save his life by taking flight South of his Meknes Royal Palace to reach safety in Oued Noun, the seat of his maternal family. He took refuge with his maternal uncles the M'gharfa and stayed there with his sons, Moulay Ahmed and the young Sidi Mohammed for more than three years until he was called again to seat the throne for the second time.[3]
Sultan Moulay Abdallah was proclaimed respectively 5 March 1729 (deposed 28 September 1734), 14 February/23 May 1736 (deposed again 8 August 1736), February 1740, (deposed again on 13 June 1741), 24 November 1741 (deposed once more on 3 February 1742), May 1743 (deposed 1747) October 1748. He died on the throne November 10th 1757 after nine years of uninterrupted reign at Dar Debibagh, a fortified palace he built in 1729.[4] Unlike his father before him, Sultan Moulay Abdallah did not father a load of sons, his sole surviving son Sidi Mohammed succeeded him. It was the smoothest succession Morocco had known since Ahmad al-Mansur of the Sa'adi dynasty.
After his death he was buried in the royal necropolis of the Moulay Abdallah Mosque which he had built in Fes el-Jdid.[5]
References[]
- ^ Woodacre, E. (2013-12-18). Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras. Springer. p. 229. ISBN 9781137362834.
- ^ ^ Eugène Fumet, Ahmed ben Khâled Ennâsiri Esslâoui. (1906). vol. IX : Chronique de la dynastie alaouie au Maroc (in French). Ernest Leroux. p. 188.
- ^ vol. IX : Chronique de la dynastie alaouie au Maroc, p.188 (in French).
- ^ Aubin, Eugène (2004). Le Maroc dans la tourmente: 1902-1903 (in French). Eddif. p. 377. ISBN 9789981896482.
- ^ Bressolette, Henri (2016). A la découverte de Fès. L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2343090221.
- 1694 births
- 1757 deaths
- 17th-century Arabs
- 18th-century Arabs
- People from Meknes
- 18th-century Moroccan people
- 18th-century monarchs in Africa
- Alaouite dynasty monarchs
- Sultans of Morocco