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Sayyida al Hurra
16th-century Moroccan ruler of Tétouan and privateer
Sayyida al Hurra
Lalla ʿĀʾisha bint ʿAlī ibn Rāshid al-ʿAlamī (Arabic: عائشة بنت علي بن رشيد العلمي), commonly known as Sayyida al-Ḥurra (السيدة الحرة, transl. The Lady, the Free lady), was a Moroccan privateer who governed the city of Tétouan from 1515 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). The era of her life and career was largely marked by a widespread struggle between the Christian world and the Muslim world: the Ottoman Empire had conquered Constantinople in 1453, ending the Eastern Byzantine Empire; the Portuguese Empire had begun conquering ports...
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