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Muhammad al-Qa'im
Muhammad al-Qa'im bi-amr Allah was the founder of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco. A sharif from the Draa valley, he was proclaimed leader of the holy war against the Portuguese by the tribes of the Sus in 1510, with the backing of Sufi brotherhoods. He died in 1517, and his sons Ahmad al-Araj and Muhammad al-Shaykh continued his struggle, taking Marrakesh in the 1520s and Fez in 1549.
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