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Key

The Saadian sultans Spain Holy men and holy-war leaders The zawiya of Dila Iligh, lords of the Sous The Alawi sharifs of Tafilalt bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. al-Ifrani, Nozhet-Elhâdi: histoire de la dynastie saadienne au Maroc (1511–1670), tr. O. Houdas (Paris, 1889): the chronicle of al-Mansur's sons, Larache, Ibn Abi Mahalli, the last Saadians, Dila, Iligh and the first Alawis — source
  2. al-Nasiri, Kitab al-Istiqsa: Chronique de la dynastie alaouie du Maroc, tr. E. Fumey, Archives marocaines 9 (1906): Moulay Sharif's death, Rashid's departure, al-Khadir Ghaylan — source
  3. Saadi Sultanate — Wikipedia (the succession war 1603–1627 and the rival powers) — source
  4. Ahmad al-Mansur — Wikipedia (death 25 August 1603; Judar and the Songhay campaign) — source
  5. Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli — Wikipedia (the Mahdi's revolt, 1610–1613) — source
  6. Capture of La Mámora — Wikipedia (the Spanish seizure, August 1614) — source
  7. Republic of Salé — Wikipedia (the Morisco exiles and their break with Zaydan, 1627) — source
  8. Zawiya Dila'iya — Wikipedia (Muhammad al-Hajj, the fall of al-Ayachi, Fez, Salé, 1660) — source
  9. Kingdom of Tazeroualt — Wikipedia (Abu Hassun of Iligh, Yahya al-Hahi, Sijilmasa) — source
  10. Muhammad ibn Sharif — Wikipedia (Moulay Sharif's captivity, the oath of 1640, al-Qa'a and Dahr al-Ramka) — source
  11. Ahmad al-Abbas — Wikipedia (the siege of Marrakesh and the murder of the last Saadian, 1659) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Morocco, 1600–1660

How did the golden sultan's Morocco break into rival states within sixty years of his death?
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