Muhammad al-Burtuqali, (full name Abu Abd Allah al-Burtuqali Muhammad ibn Muhammad,

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

: أبو عبد الله محمد البرتقالي) succeeded his father

Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya () (also known as Abu Abdellah al-Shaykh Muhammad ben Yehya, Abu Abdallah Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya or Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Sheikh) was the first Wattasid Sultan of Morocco and King of Fez between 1472 ...

to become the second Wattasid Sultan of

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

in 1504. He died in 1526 and was succeeded by his son

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad (), also Sultan Ahmad, or Ahmed el Outassi, was a Sultan of the Moroccan Wattasid dynasty. He ruled from 1526 to 1545, and again between 1547 and 1549.C. E. Bosworth''The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and ...

. Muhammad al-Burtuqali earned the nickname of ''Al-Bortogali'' after being held as a hostage for seven years by the Portuguese. Sultan Muhammad al-Burtughali was the sultan that sent Leo Africanus and his uncle on a mission to

Timbuktu Timbuktu ( ; french: Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: ); tmh, label=Tuareg, script=Tfng, ⵜⵏⴱⴾⵜ, Tin Buqt a city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. The town is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrativ ...

. This journey gave Leo Africanus material for the Description of Africa.

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Wattasid dynasty Sultans of Morocco 1464 births 1526 deaths 15th-century Berber people 16th-century Berber people {{Morocco-bio-stub