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Ali Abu Hassun

d. 1554 · 16th century

Ali Abu Hassun was the last Wattasid ruler of Morocco. After the Saadians took Fez in 1549, he obtained Ottoman support from Algiers and briefly retook the city in 1554, but was defeated and killed by the Saadian sultan Muhammad al-Shaykh later that year, ending the dynasty.

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Wattasid Sultanate

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