Ahmed Elasgher[1] Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II Al Walid ben Zidan Mohammed esh-Sheikh es-Seghir
Names
Zidan Abu Maali bin Ahmad al-Mansur
Era dates
(16th–17th Centuries)
Dynasty
House of Saadi
Father
Ahmad al-Mansur
Mother
Aisha bint Abu Bakkar al-Shabani
Religion
Sunni Islam
Zidan Abu Maali (Arabic: زيدان أبو معالي) (died September 1627; or Muley Zidan) was the embattled Saadi Sultan of Morocco from 1603 to 1627. He was the son and heir of Ahmad al-Mansur by his wife Lalla Aisha bint Abu Bakkar,[2] a lady of the Chebanate tribe.[3]
He ruled only over the southern half of the country after his brother Mohammed esh Sheikh el Mamun took the northern half and a rebel from Tafilalt, Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli, marched on Marrakesh claiming to be the Mahdi. This led Muley Zidan to be encircled in Safi amid other failed military campaigns against the rebellious north. These events were exacerbated by a context of chaos that ensued amid a plague pandemic which left a third of the country dead.
His reign saw the end of the Anglo-Spanish war (with the 1604 Treaty of London)—which broke the Anglo-Dutch axis that Morocco was relying upon as a means of protection from Spain, and so caused the Spanish navy to resume devastating raids on the Moroccan coast—and the rebellion of one of his provincial governors who established his own independent state of the Republic of Salé between Azemmour and Salé.
^Ifrānī, Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad (1889). Nozhet-Elhâdi: Histoire de la dynastie saadienne au Maroc (1511-1670) (in French). E. Leroux. p. 404.
^Les sources inédites de l'histoire du Maroc: Dynastie saadienne, 1530-1660. 1e série (in French). E. Leroux. 1933. p. 579. Moulay Ahmed el-Mansour had married ... Aicha bent Abou Baker ..., often called by Arab chroniclers because of her origin Lalla Chebania
^Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad Ifrānī (1888). Nozhet-Elhâdi : Histoire de la dynastie saadienne au Maroc (1511-1670) (in French). p. 312.
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acknowledged its semi-autonomy. Contrary to popular belief that Sultan ZidanAbuMaali had reclaimed sovereignty over Salé and appointed Janszoon the Governor...
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first achieved political ascendancy in Tafilalt, and in 1606, Sultan ZidanAbuMaali hid in Tafilalt, where he made a profit off of gold mined in the area...
of priceless manuscripts: for example, the collection of the sultan ZidanAbuMaali, who ruled Morocco from 1603 to 1627, is housed here. The main entrance...
discuss a common alliance against Spain and the Barbary pirates. Sultan ZidanAbuMaali appointed Samuel Pallache as his envoy, and in 1608 Pallache met with...
leaders and religious authorities. From the beginning of the reign of ZidanAbuMaali in 1613, the Saadi sultanate was very weak. The Zawiya Dila'iya (or...
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for Spain's aid to the Sultan's fight against the Sultan's brother, ZidanAbuMaali. Larache remains under Spanish control for the next 79 years until...
the internal struggles of the Saadi sultanate against his brother ZidanAbuMaali. Álvaro de Bazán, the Marquis of Santa Cruz, had already tried to occupy...
discuss a common alliance against Spain and the Barbary pirates, sultan ZidanAbuMaali in 1608 appointed the merchant brothers Samuel and Joseph Pallache...
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