Abdallah al-Ghalib [SEP] position held
Abdallah al-Ghalib
Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah (1517 – 22 January 1574, reigned 1557–74) was the second Saadian sultan of Morocco. He succeeded his father Mohammed ash-Sheikh as Sultan of Morocco.
With his first wife, Mohammed ash-Sheikh had three sons, but the two oldest had died while he was still alive (in 1550 and in 1551). Abdallah, the third, was 40 years old when he became sultan and received the name al-Ghalib Billah. Before that he had
- Nasir ad-Din al-Qasri (1545–1547)
- Abul Abbas Ahmad (second time, 1547–1549)
- Ali Abu Hassun (Jan–Sep 1554)
Saadi dynasty.
- Mohammed ash-Sheikh (1549–1554, 1554–1557)
- Abdallah al-Ghalib (1557–1574)
- Abu Abdallah Mohammed II (1574–1576)
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I (1576–1578)
- Ahmad al-Mansur (1578–1603)
1603–1627: Succession war
Main Saadian rulers, based in