Ruler · 1491 – 1557

Mohammed al-Shaykh

Lived 1491 – 1557; politician. Sultan of Morocco of Saadi Sultanate, 1549 – 1557.

Wikidata's English label: Muhammad al-Shaykh.

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Lived: 1491 – 1557; 66 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Saadi Sultanate
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Sultan of Morocco

Saadi Sultanate · the 1st of 11 dated reigns · 1549 – 1659

Mohammed al-Shaykh1549 – 1557

Abdallah al-Ghalib1557 – 1574

Abu Abdallah Muhammad II Saadi1574 – 1576

Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi1576 – 1578

7 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1549 – 1557 · 8 years · came to it aged 59

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide

Mohammed al-Shaykh was assassinated by the Ottomans in 1557 by order of Hasan Pasha, son of Hayreddin Barbarossa, as Mohammed was preparing for an alliance with Spain against the Ottomans.

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