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Abdallah al-Ghalib

1517–1574 · 16th century

Abdallah al-Ghalib was sultan of Morocco from 1557 to 1574, the son and successor of Muhammad al-Shaykh in the Saadi dynasty. He defeated an Ottoman army from Algiers at Wadi al-Laban near Fez in 1558 and kept Morocco independent of the Ottomans. In Marrakesh he rebuilt the Ben Youssef Madrasa and built the Mouassine Mosque.

Abdallah al-Ghalib
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