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Sayyida al Hurra

1485 - 1542

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Lalla Aisha bint Ali ibn Rashid al-Alami (Arabic: للا عائشة بنت علي بن رشيد العلمي), also referred to as Sayyida al-Hurra (السيدة الحرة, transl. The Lady, the Free Woman), was a Moroccan privateer (of Andalusian origin) who governed the city of Tétouan from 1515 or 1519 to 1542. As the wife of Moroccan king Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad, who was her second husband, she belonged to the Wattasid dynasty. She is considered to be "one of the most important female figures of the Islamic West in the modern age." Her exact date of birth is unknown, but various sources estimate her to be born somewhere between 1491-1495. Likewise, there is a lot of discussion surrounding her death; some say she died in 1552, while others place her death a decade later (1561, 1562). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sayyida al Hurra is the 6,373rd most popular politician (down from 6,309th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Morocco (up from 40th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Moroccan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sayyida al Hurra ranks 6,373 out of 19,576. Before her are Fayez al-Sarraj, Balamber, Wilfried Martens, Jung Bahadur Rana, Emperor Jomei, and Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg. After her are Andrei Karlov, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Kantarō Suzuki, Chen Cheng, Al-Mansur Ali, and Şahin Giray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1485, Sayyida al Hurra ranks 10. Before her are Giovanni da Verrazzano, Thomas Cromwell, Pedro de Alvarado, Sebastiano del Piombo, Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, and Clément Janequin. After her are Johannes Bugenhagen, Balthasar Hubmaier, Joos van Cleve, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Wolf Huber, and Beatus Rhenanus. Among people deceased in 1542, Sayyida al Hurra ranks 8. Before her are Lapu-Lapu, Catherine Howard, Lisa del Giocondo, 2nd Dalai Lama, Hernando de Soto, and Dosso Dossi. After her are Peter Henlein, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Thomas Wyatt, Girolamo Aleandro, Ludwig Senfl, and Nikolaus Federmann.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Sayyida al Hurra ranks 36 out of 264. Before her are Yusuf II, Almohad caliph (1197), Dominique de Villepin (1953), Larbi Benbarek (1914), Aziz Akhannouch (1961), Mehdi Ben Barka (1920), and Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (1875). After her are Ahmad al-Badawi (1199), Mohamed Choukri (1935), Mohammed ben Abdallah (1710), Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (1779), Philippe Barbarin (1950), and Ahmed Faras (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Morocco

Among politicians born in Morocco, Sayyida al Hurra ranks 21. Before her are Al-Rashid of Morocco (1631), Yusuf II, Almohad caliph (1197), Dominique de Villepin (1953), Aziz Akhannouch (1961), Mehdi Ben Barka (1920), and Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (1875). After her are Mohammed ben Abdallah (1710), Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (1779), Muhammad IV of Morocco (1803), Abbas El Fassi (1940), Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi (1541), and Abu Inan Faris (1329).

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