Ahmad al-Abbas

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Ahmad al-Abbas
Sultan of Morocco
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Sultan of Morocco
Reign1653–1659
PredecessorMohammed esh-Sheikh es-Seghir
Successor Mohammed al-Hajj al-Dila'i (Dilaite interlude)
BornUnknown
Died1659
Burial
Saadian Tombs
Names
Ahmad al-Abbas bin Mohammed esh-Sheikh es-Seghir
HouseSaadi
FatherMohammed esh-Sheikh es-Seghir
ReligionSunni Islam

Ahmad al-Abbas (Arabic: أحمد العباس)(? – 1659) was the last Sultan of the Saadi dynasty in present-day Morocco. He was proclaimed Sultan in Marrakesh in the year H.1064 (B.C. November 22 1653 - November 11 1654)[1] after the death of his father, Mohammed esh-Sheikh es-Seghir. In 1659, he was assassinated by his maternal uncle, .[2][3] His uncle assumed power as Sultan in Marrakesh until 1667 when he was in turn murdered, it happened shortly before the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Al-Rashid conquered the city in 1668.[4][5]: 230 

Life[]

In 1659, Ahmed al-Abbas witnessed his capital Marrakesh besieged by his maternal uncle, who was his General of armies. Al Shabani was of the Chabanate, an Arab Maqil tribe. The siege lasted many months. As the situation was worsening, Sultan Ahmed al-Abbas's mother thought a good idea for her son to go meet his uncle, and make peace with him and the Chabanate. He followed his mother's council, but he had just gone out of the city to meet his uncle that the latter traitorously murdered him.[6]

after having murdered his nephew Sultan Ahmed al-Abbas, proclaimed himself Sultan and locked up the deceased's wives and children in a tower. Among the royal ladies he found in the Royal Palace, he got madly in love with one of Ahmed al-Abbas's paternal half-sisters. He protested his love for her and urged for his desire to wed her, which consequently happened in 1660. Ahmed al-Abbas's half-sister always retained a desire to avenge her brother which she did in 1667. She reportedly drugged , slaughtered him and ordered his body to be trained out of the Palace, which was carried out.[6]

Ahmad al-Abbas had a daughter Lalla Mariem[7] who married of the Alaouites in the late 1660s.

In the Saadian Tombs are the graves of both Sultan Ahmed al-Abbas's daughter Al-Ruqyah and his wife a daughter of Al-Hussein Al-Jerrar.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad Ifrānī (1888). Nozhet-Elhâdi : Histoire de la dynastie saadienne au Maroc (1511-1670) (in French). p. 428.
  2. ^ الرحمن/السكتاني, أبي مهدي عيسى بن عبد (2015-01-01). 9782745182975 (in Arabic). أجوبة البادية.
  3. ^ الإدريسي, عبد الله حمادي (2016-01-01). 9782745180766 (in Arabic).
  4. ^ Véronne, Chantal de la (2012). "Saʿdids". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill.
  5. ^ Abun-Nasr, Jamil (1987). A history of the Maghrib in the Islamic period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521337674.
  6. ^ a b Germain Mouette (1683). Histoires Des Conquestes De Mouley Archy, Connu Sous Le Nom De Roy De Tafilet (in French). Edme Coutirot. pp. 50–51.
  7. ^ Germain Mouette (1683). Histoires Des Conquestes De Mouley Archy, Connu Sous Le Nom De Roy De Tafilet (in French). Edme Coutirot. p. 117.
  8. ^ "hesperis-tamuda". Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2021. {{cite web}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |lay-date= (help)
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