Abdallah of Morocco
Moulay Abdallah (1694 – 10 November 1757) (Arabic: مولاي عبدالله بن عربية بن إسماعيل الثمين) was the Sultan of Morocco in the years 1729–1734, 1736, 1740–1741, 1741–1742, 1743–1747 and 1748–1757.
He was born in 1694 as a son of Sultan Moulay Ismail by one of his wives Lalla Khanatha bint Bakkar. He ascended the throne numerous times, fighting his half-brothers. Moulay Abdallah was first deposed in 1734 by the Abid Al-Bukhari who secretly were plotting his deposition and **ination. Upon hearing of their plan he managed to save his life by taking flight South of his Meknes Royal Palace to reach safety in Oued Noun, the seat of his maternal family. He took refuge with his maternal uncles the M'gharfa and stayed there with his sons, Moulay Ahmed and the young Sidi Mohammed for more than three years until he was called again to seat the throne for the second time.
Sultan Moulay Abdallah was proclaimed respectively 5 March 1729 (deposed 28 September 1734), 14 February/23 May 1736 (deposed again 8 August 1736), February 1740, (deposed again on 13 June 1741), 24 November 1741 (deposed once more on 3 February 1742), May 1743 (deposed 1747) October 1748. He died on the throne on November 10th, 1757 after nine years of uninterrupted reign at Dar Debibagh, a fortified palace he built in 1729. Unlike his father before him, Sultan Moulay Abdallah did not father a load of sons, his sole surviving son Sidi Mohammed succeeded him. It was the smoothest succession Morocco had known since Ahmad al-Mansur of the Sa'adi dynasty.
After his death, he was buried in the royal necropolis of the Moulay Abdallah Mosque which he had built in Fes el-Jdid.