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Bu Hasun al-Wattasi

أبو حسون الوطاسي

Last of the Wattasid kings, whom al-Salabi styles 'the Ottoman pasha Bu Hasun'. Salih Reis and Ottoman forces stood with him against Muhammad al-Shaykh; he entered Fez 3 Safar 964/8 January 1554. Salih tried replacing him with the Idrisi sharif Mawlay Bu Bakr at the Sufi murabitun's suggestion, but the people's rising restored him on terms: the khutba in the Ottoman sultan's name and a garrison at Balata. Al-Salabi notes Süleyman had supplied him four thousand soldiers 1.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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Maghreb
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Summary

Last of the Wattasid kings, whom al-Salabi styles 'the Ottoman pasha Bu Hasun' 1.

Ottoman support

Having lost hope of Spanish and Portuguese backing, he was joined by Ottoman forces under Salih Reis against the Sa'dis; after their defeat near Badis he entered Fez on 3 Safar 964/8 January 1554 2.

Deposed and restored

Salih Reis tried replacing him with the Idrisi sharif Mawlay Bu Bakr at the murabitun's suggestion, but the people's rising forced Bu Hasun's restoration on terms: the khutba in the Ottoman sultan's name and a garrison at Balata 3.

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Ruled over
Fez
Allied with
Salih Reis
Opposed
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Sa'di
Participated in
Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)

People and things also explored

Salih Reis· Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)· Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Sa'di· al-Qarawiyyin mosque· Ibn Battuta returns to Fez· The Malian giraffe embassy to Fez (762 AH)· The Marinid division between Fez and Marrakesh (776 AH)· Recovery of Badis from Spain (964/1554)

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 238-244
  2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 238
  3. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 239
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Salih Reis

Beylerbey of Algiers from Safar 960/January 1552. Internally he sought complete unity of all Algeria, the Sahara included, to be free for al-Andalus; externally to expel Spain, fence off Sa'di trouble, and proclaim general jihad toward al-Andalus. Backing the Wattasid Bu Hasun, Ottoman forces entered Fez 3 Safar 961/8 January 1554 (the printed text reads 964) and the Porte declared Morocco annexed; in four months there he recovered Badis from Spain and tried replacing Bu Hasun with the Idrisi sharif Mawlay Bu Bakr before the people's rising forced him back under Ottoman suzerainty terms. When Ottoman intelligence uncovered the Sa'di-Spanish plot, Süleyman sent forty ships and ordered Oran attacked; Salih readied seventy ships and forty thousand men, but died of plague in Rajab 963/1556, aged seventy.