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Ahmad al-Mansur died in 1603 and was succeeded by his son Zidan al-Nasir, [34] who was based in Marrakech, and by Abou Fares Abdallah, who was based in Fez who had only local power. He was buried in the mausoleum of the Saadian Tombs in Marrakech.
Ahmad al-Mansur was the Saadi Sultan of Morocco from 1578 to his death in 1603, the sixth and most famous of all rulers of the Saadis. Ahmad al-Mansur was an im...
- Early Life
- Battle of Ksar El Kebir
- Rule
- Conquests
- Legacy
- Popular Culture
Ahmad was the fifth son of Mohammed ash-Sheikh who was the first Saadi sultan of Morocco. His mother was Lalla Masuda. After the murder of their father, Mohammed in 1557 and the following struggle for power, the two brothers Ahmad al-Mansur and Abd al-Malik had to flee their elder brother Abdallah al-Ghalib (1557–1574), leave Morocco and stay abroa...
In 1578, Ahmad's brother, Sultan Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I, died in battle against the Portuguesearmy at Ksar-el-Kebir. Ahmad was named his brother's successor and began his reign amid newly won prestige and wealth from the ransom of Portuguese captives.
Al-Mansur began his reign by leveraging his dominant position with the vanquished Portuguese during prisoner ransom talks, the collection of which filled the Moroccan royal coffers. Shortly after, he commissioned the great architectural symbol of this new birth of Moroccan power, the El Badi Palace in Marrakesh, a huge and lavish riad-style palace ...
Annexation of Saharan oases
In 1583 after the dispatch of al-Mansur led by the commander Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Baraka and Abu Al-Abbas Ahmed Ibn Al-Haddad Al-Omari. The march of the army began from Marrakesh, and they arrived after 70 days, where they initially called for obedience and warning, after the tribal elders refused to comply, the war began. The annexed territories contained Tuat, Jouda, Tamantit, Tabelbala, Ourgla, Tsabit, Tekorareen, and others.
Annexation of Chinguetti
The Saadians repeatedly tried to control Chinguetti, and the most prominent attempts were made during the reign of Sultan Muhammad al-Shaykh, but control of it did not come until the reign of Ahmed al-Mansur, who stripped a campaign in 1584 led by Muhammad bin Salem in which he managed to seize control of Chinguetti, modern day Mauritania.
Songhai campaign
The Songhai Empire was a West African state centered in eastern Mali. From the early 15th to the late 16th century, it was one of the largest African empires in history. On October 16, 1590, Ahmad took advantage of the recent civil strife in the empire and dispatched an army of 4,000 men across the Sahara desert under the command of converted Spaniard Judar Pasha. Though the Songhai met them at the Battle of Tondibi with a force of 40,000, they lacked the Moroccan's gunpowder weapons and quic...
Ahmad al-Mansur died in 1603 and was succeeded by his son Zidan al-Nasir, who was based in Marrakech, and by Abou Fares Abdallah, who was based in Fes who had only local power. He was buried in the mausoleum of the Saadian Tombsin Marrakech. Well-known writers at his court were Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali, Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi a...
He is featured as the playable leader of the Moroccan civilization in the 2013 computer strategy game Civilization V: Brave New World
Ahmad al-Mansur was the Saadi Sultan of Morocco from 1578 to his death in 1603, the sixth and most famous of all rulers of the Saadis. Ahmad al-Mansur was an important figure in both Europe and Africa in the sixteenth century.
Aug 31, 2021 · From a shared curiosity of one another’s fledgling empires to a desire to strike a mutually beneficial alliance, Elizabeth I and Ahmad al-Mansūr forged ties that were unprecedented for both Tudor England (1485–1603) and Saʿdi Morocco (1554–1660).
- Samia Errazzouki
- 2021
Her exchanges with Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco — examined here for the first time — show how, in al-Mansur's eyes, England's imperial virgin was hardly imperial at all, despite the English mythology of her international importance.
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Sep 3, 2024 · Abu Abbas Ahmed al-Mansur (أبو العباس أحمد المنصور), nicknamed Ad-Dhahbî ("the golden one" in Arabic), was the sixth sultan of the Saadian dynasty in Morocco from 1578 until his death in 1603.
