Ahmad al-Abbas ( ar, أحمد العباس) (? – 1659) was the last

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of the

Saadi dynasty The Saadi Sultanate (also rendered in English as Sa'di, Sa'did, Sa'dian, or Saadian; ar, السعديون, translit=as-saʿdiyyūn) was a state which ruled present-day Morocco and parts of West Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was l ...

in present-day

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. He was proclaimed

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

in the year H.1064 ( B.C. November 22, 1653 - November 11, 1654) after the death of his father,

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. In 1659, he was assassinated by his maternal uncle,

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. His uncle assumed power as

until 1667 when he was in turn murdered, it happened shortly before the

Alaouite The Alawi dynasty ( ar, سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, translit=sulālat al-ʿalawiyyīn al-fīlāliyyīn) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning d ...

Moulay Al-Rashid conquered the city in 1668.

Life

In 1659, Ahmed al-Abbas witnessed his capital

besieged by his maternal uncle,

who was his

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of armies. Al Shabani was of the Chabanate, an Arab

Maqil The Banu Ma'qil ( ar, بنو معقل) was an Arab nomadic tribe that originated in South Arabia. The tribe emigrated to the Maghreb region of North Africa with the Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym tribes in the 11th century. They mainly settled in and ...

tribe. The siege lasted many months. As the situation was worsening,

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.

after having murdered his nephew

Ahmed al-Abbas, proclaimed himself

and locked up the deceased's wives and children in a tower. Among the royal ladies he found in the Royal Palace, he fell 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. Ahmad al-Abbas's eldest daughter or sister was Lalla Mariem, she married Moulay Ahmed ben Mehrez in 1668, after Moulay Al-Rashid's conquest of Marrakesh. In the

Saadian Tombs The Saadian Tombs (, , ) are a historic royal necropolis in Marrakesh, Morocco, located on the south side of the Kasbah Mosque, inside the royal kasbah (citadel) district of the city. They date to the time of the Saadian dynasty and in particul ...

are the graves of both

Ahmed al-Abbas's daughter Al-Ruqyah and his wife a daughter of Al-Hussein Al-Jerrar.

References

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