Aouda Doukalia

Aouda Doukalia (Arabic: عودة دكالية) is one of the wives of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail and the mother of Sultan Mostadi ben Ismail.[1] She is native of Doukkala.[2] In 1738 she entered in negotiations with the General of the Abid al-Bukhari[3] to seat her son Moulay Mostadi on the throne.[3] They accepted and crowned him in place of Sultan Mohammed ben Ismail who was thus overthrown.[3] Her son Moulay Mostadi sealed stronger alliances than his predecessors,[3] he was the greatest obstacle for Moulay Abdallah and several battles resulted between these two sultans.[4][5]

Aouda Doukalia
SpouseMoulay Ismail
IssueMostadi ben Ismail
Moulay Bi'Nassir[1]
Moulay al-Hussein[1]
HouseAlaouite (by marriage)
ReligionIslam

References

  1. مولاي عبد الرحمان, بن زيدان. المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل ابن الشريف. مكتبة نور. p. 392. and Sultan Mostadi and his full brothers Bi'nassir and al-Hussein as well as others not named, their mother is Aouda Doukalia
  2. Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri 1906, p. 208.
  3. Chenier, Louis-Sauveur de (1787). Recherches historiques sur les Maures, et histoire de l'empire de Maroc (in French). Bailly. p. 448.
  4. Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri 1906, p. 217.
  5. Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri 1906, pp. 220–221.

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