Muhammad al-Burtuqali, (full name Abu Abd Allah al-Burtuqali Muhammad ibn Muhammad,

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: أبو عبد الله محمد البرتقالي) succeeded his father

Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya () (also known as Abu Abdellah al-Shaykh Muhammad ben Yehya, Abu Abdallah Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya or Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Sheikh) was the first Wattasid Sultan of Morocco and King of Fez between 1472 ...

to become the second Wattasid Sultan of

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in 1504. He died in 1526 and was succeeded by his son

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad (), also Sultan Ahmad, or Ahmad al-Wattasi, was a Sultan of the Moroccan Wattasid dynasty. He ruled from 1526 to 1545, and again between 1547 and 1549.C. E. Bosworth''The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological an ...

. Muhammad al-Burtuqali earned the nickname of ''Al-Bortogali'' after being held as a hostage for seven years by the Portuguese. Sultan Muhammad al-Burtughali was the sultan that sent

Leo Africanus Johannes Leo Africanus (born al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Wazzān al-Zayyātī al-Fasī, ; – ) was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book '' Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica'', later publish ...

and his uncle on a mission to

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. This journey gave Leo Africanus material for the Description of Africa.

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Wattasid dynasty Sultans of Morocco 1464 births 1526 deaths 15th-century Berber people 16th-century Berber people {{Morocco-bio-stub