The Greatest Moroccan Sultan | Moulay Ismail Documentary

Morocco’s history is filled with epic rulers who etched their names across the pages of history. Yusuf bin Tashfin. Ahmad al-Mansur. Its final great ruler was a man who ruled for 55 years. Sultan Ismail of the Alaouite Dynasty, he took Morocco from a fragmented land that was at the prey of the Europeans - to a strong, independent country that could protect itself from external and internal threats. In the process, he provided the country with stability and prosperity, even if they were achieved brutally in his signature autocratic style.
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0:00 Intro
1:16 Pre-Ismail Morocco
2:35 Ismail & Absolutism
10:38 Success or Failure?
13:36 Outro

[@victor.d6380]

Marocco a great nation with a great history

[@asiso1424]

We need more videos about Morocco 👌

[@HikmaHistory]

Love Moroccan history, will deffo upload more in the future!

[@asiso1424]

@@HikmaHistory tanks you sir

[@yasminaelhachimi901]

@@HikmaHistory 👍👍👍

[@friedballs]

I'm moroccan and send my regards

[@HISTORYUN]

The black Janissaries are very interesting, very insightful lesson

[@HikmaHistory]

'Slave' armies, in general, are fascinating

[@anwar8housni]

@@HikmaHistory The idea of the unsullied army in game of thrones actually a lot of what happen in got was a real thing in Morocco

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@HikmaHistory I’ve never understood the idea of a slave army who entrusts their entire defence to slaves? And could those people be rightfully described as slaves seeing a they had more rights than true slaves?

[@ditocerto]

@@trevormcdonald385 yeah good question.

[@trevormcdonald385]

@@ditocerto it’s my understanding they were allowed to own property, well paid, politically powerful. Doesn’t sound much like a slave to me.

[@Buurba_Jolof]

My New history favorite channel ♥️👌♥️

[@mohamednazirbasharat913]

Rich in content and clear in presentation

[@SamAronow]

Terrific video.

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks man

[@Tinah-Rose6]

Thank you fir such a helpful video 😀😀😀 😊

[@music_luxury]

Salam aleykum from Bukhara.Morroco history is very interesting

[@lappeldesloups8022]

Wahou city of Mouhammad al-Boukhârî🌹❤️🤲, from Rif Marocco.

[@al-batal]

I love you for the sake of Allah beautiful professional and informative Allah bless your mother and father for raising such a smart son. As we maghrebis say Allah yr7am walidik!

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

An interesting and educational video.

[@yusufazad4796]

Thankss aloot

[@explicitcontent7192]

Small correction: the name of the dynasty does not come from the name of the 4th Caliph Ali, but from the founder of the dynasty otherwise known as "moulay ali al-sharif". in Morocco the "al-sharif" title means "the honorified" or "the honored" in arabic and it implies ones descendence of the Prophet Mohammed.

[@adnanafulay3142]

Yes, and they are also Titles that could be bought from the zaouias for a certain amount of money or contribution in general to the Zawyas.

[@explicitcontent7192]

@@adnanafulay3142 you can fake the title but you cant fake the ancestory, some tribes keep their whole lineage documented, there is also offices that track "Sharif" families in Saudi Arabia, so faking this title wouldnt help you when you need it most...

[@adnanafulay3142]

@@explicitcontent7192 how would an office in saudi arabia know about how many children someone had in 1600-1800 in Morocco or Algeria? whole tribes migrated and i dont think its actually feasible without modern dna technology tbh haha

[@explicitcontent7192]

@@adnanafulay3142 they dont keep track of all children, they cant keep track of all children .. like you said people migrate and the populus changes over time, but you cant deny the fact that the "clan mentality" still exists in the arab world especially in big families, so you can imagine how much prestige it could mean to have "sharif" title... (although i dont think it holds any value in day to day life nowadays... we all bleed red after all..) So this is more than a reason for "some people" to keep track of their "family branches" all over the world... anyways AS FAR AS I KNOW: in order to obtain the title and you think its worth the hassle you have to provide CERTIFIED LINEAGE from MULTIPLE SOURCES... (kinda like the "al-sanad" when it comes to "hadith al-sahih" if that simplifies the picture...) anyways man ima stop answering at this point so.. I wish you well and stay safe in this crazy times man.. peace

[@walidelbelghiti3513]

@@explicitcontent7192 you dont need to go that far just here in Morocco we have those offices too, (tho in my region Tafilalt where our first grandfather started ruling you dont need them because people know literally every sharif.. afterall we are one bloodline ) so it is true what you are saying tribes actually keep documentation + knowledge of every family.

[@shanebplante]

New role Model 😊

[@SaidSaid-bl4ri]

In the vidéo picture Abdelwahad ibn Messaoud ibn Mohammed Anoun ( 1558 -?) was the principal secretary of Moroccan ruler Ahmed al-Mansur Saadi and ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600 . There he promoted an Anglo-Moroccan alliance against Philip II of Spain and his successors.

[@HikmaHistory]

Excellent knowledge!

[@benjaminprietop]

I'd love to go to Morocco some time, specially Casablanca

[@HikmaHistory]

Marrakesh is beautiful. Would love to do a country-wide tour!

[@hamzah.7317]

I'd personally go to chefchaouen if i were you , check in google

[@ramram-db5xk]

You are criminally underrated!

[@HikmaHistory]

I'm getting there, slowly but surely! Thanks for the support!

[@anwar8housni]

You forgot Yaaqub Al-mansur 🇲🇦 He's the greatest one

[@mrmr446]

Morocco had been a major source of saltpetre I was surprised this wasn't mentioned as an export. If I understood correctly before his reign the berbers would have avoided being taxed so any subsequent levy would have been viewed as extortionate.

[@HikmaHistory]

Kinda. Berbers didn't like being taxed (not really congruent with their way of living). But on top of that, Ismail would tax them what was considered a lot anyway. So it's like a double whammy

[@mrmr446]

@@HikmaHistory Well an army like that wouldn't have been cheap so he was offering to keep them safe from outsiders and well, him. Morocco had an alliance with Elizabethan England as a counterweight to Spain but that ended with James 1, by Ismails' time perhaps India was a more important source of saltpetre. Very much enjoyed the vid.

[@HikmaHistory]

@@mrmr446 Thanks!

[@munuzatachfin2770]

Morocco stopped the crusades. Turkey did the same thing. these were the 2 passages for the European conquest.

[@DarkAngelOfTexas]

👍

[@syedazam2568]

He has the Guinness world Record for his progeny

[@HikmaHistory]

Not surprised. Is it official?

[@syedazam2568]

@@HikmaHistory Yah, the second highest is also a Muslim King. Fath Ali Shah Qajar of Persia

[@HikmaHistory]

@@syedazam2568 Yh, he had a lot too!

[@vinfacts11]

how do you even send an army across Sahara to conquer Mali? like wouldn't the army die of thirst? did they have a supply system or something?

[@briansmith9439]

That was a phenomenal feat done by the Saadian Sultan al-Mansur in 1591. He sent an advance party to build wells all along the way; it's truly a colossal expedition, some of which are still there. The lands to the south were lost to Morocco by 1630, though the eastern oases remained under Moroccan authority until 1901..

[@HikmaHistory]

Travel into the Sahara was nothing new, trade routes had already been established for a very long. Even militarily, the Almoravids and Saadians managed to do it. I'm assuming they'd bring a lot of supplies with them. Plus, they'd need to have an understanding of the lay of the land (where there are sources of water, oases villages/towns etc). I think I read somewhere that the Saadian ruler, Ahmad al-Mansur actually built wells along his journey as well!

[@Yanzdorloph]

Fun fact, many of the soldiers and commanders in the conquest of the Songhai empire were Catalonians, many not even muslims. the sultan built a Catalan church for them in Marakesh, wish sadly doesn't exist anymore

[@kamelleon9131]

@@Yanzdorloph thats false

[@Yanzdorloph]

@@kamelleon9131 Sultan Ahmed al-Mansur enlisted the services of Catalan mercenaries and Ottoman mercenaries to enhance the military capabilities of the Moroccan forces during their campaign against the Songhai Empire

[@benbenanas98]

1200 years of history

[@roleplayinggamer795]

I’m proud to be half Arab and half black thanks to moulay Ibrahim sharif

[@ditocerto]

Thanks? Why?

[@roleplayinggamer795]

@@ditocerto he was black Arab. Arab dad black mom

[@ditocerto]

@@roleplayinggamer795 to you black Americans they were all somehow black. Get out of here with that Bullcrap.

[@Aryadusvril]

@@roleplayinggamer795 uh ? No.. the black mom theory is false, his mom was from a powerful arab tribe in the atlantic, that black woman everyone's talking about wasn’t his actual mother

[@roleplayinggamer795]

@@Aryadusvril idk man the Moroccan king looks kinda black so I believe his mom is black

[@DarkAngelOfTexas]

🙂

[@aasemahsan]

5:05 Abid al Bukhari

[@HikmaHistory]

Who was Morocco's greatest ruler? Useful Chart's video on the Alaouites: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHnCdKqof8lpgc0&ab_channel=UsefulCharts

[@anwar8housni]

Yaaqub Al-mansur without any doubt he died in 1199 4 years earlier he responds to the attack of Castilian In what is known as the battle of Alarcos 1195 Also you have Abdulmalik the brother of Ahmed Al-mansur who ends the existence of portugal during the 3 kings battle 1578 Also their biggest brother Abdullah Al-ghalib who destroy the ottoman army in the battle of ouadi laban 1558 , after The assassination of their father, Muhammad al-Sheikh, and due to the severity of Suleiman's hatred for him, he hung his head at the entrance to his palace for a whole year, and this battle was a revenge for his father Also should mention that Abdulmalik died in the battle of the 3 kings Because the Turks poisoned him to make the Moroccans lose the war and enter Morocco easily , but the younger brother Ahmed Al-Mansour Al-Dahbi hid the news and completed the battle and exterminated the Portuguese soldiers, headed by King Sebastian and all his court and his family, after the end of the battle, the people pledged allegiance to Sultan Ahmed Al-Mansour, and over time he The Ottomans called him in their letters the "caliph" and the "sultan" due to the military and diplomatic power he reached

[@HikmaHistory]

@@anwar8housni Yaqub al-Mansur was pretty prominent. It would have been interesting if he had live for another 10 years or so; to see how he would've responded to the Christian Reconquista

[@anwar8housni]

@@HikmaHistory But you steal can find two great battles between Morocco under the Merinide dynasty that save the kingdom of Granada 200 years Battle of Écija in September 1275 Battle of Martos 21 October 1275

[@HikmaHistory]

@@BLRSharpLight But they weren't Moroccan...

[@lemickey2835]

im related to him lol

[@Yanzdorloph]

Imean, at this point, who isn't

[@meknineabdelkader1515]

I'm also related to him

[@beachboy0505]

When you visit Morocco 🇲🇦, you are aware of tension between two different communities?

[@rabbiteighteen4012]

what communities?

[@thedebunker1777]

Mouley Ismail ibn Sharif was a great black man

[@azertyazertyy9589]

You are LIAR and a BLACK Racist never a Black man ruled in The history of Morocco

[@elhinm07]

He was a great moroccan man!

[@thedebunker1777]

@@elhinm07 He was a black Moroccan and Moroccan is not a race.

[@thedebunker1777]

@@elhinm07 Great Black Moroccan man

[@fatbomb2338]

It wouldn't matter if he was or wasn't but my guess is even if his pigmentation wasn't, he was probably darkened by the constant exposure to sunlight, seems like a hands on type who would never take a back seat to no one.

[@mehdifadli7316]

They were not pirates, they were corsairs.

[@femiog]

He was half black. his mother was black.

[@fatman9196]

Any books on subject??? I’m a black American by the way

[@amagiliberation]

World’s Great Men of Color - J.A. Rodgers. The portrait of him shown at 11:41 is more historically accurate. He was definitely dark skinned, with African features. His mother was full-blooded African, described in depth in the historical accounts.

[@amagiliberation]

I only say that for clarity. He was brutal to slaves, but still loved by the Nation in the end.

[@trevormcdonald385]

Slaves who are politically powerful, own property and make good money. What about that is a slave?

[@isabel1712]

Is this ruler The Ismail who was a son of a slave?..and slave everyone specially if they look like his mother?…or was another ruler with the same name?

[@Ppoim]

Zenata imazighen Akbar imjahden Tarik ibn Zaid Maghrawaden Al murabiteen Al mohwahideen Meriniden Wattasiden Jaish d'Ahl Al-Rif Abdelkarim khattabi Omar mohtar Mohamed amezian Abd al-Kader Barbary pirates Ibn battuta

[@beachboy0505]

What did we do before we had Internet and social media? Make babies 🍼💖

[@alphaomarbarry6511]

Are this black people from the tekrur kingdom of west Africa

[@gmk5386]

no , mostly from Sénégal and Niger , Mali

[@kolotchelemanassanecouliba178]

Excuse me, but from what I learned the black guard was constituted from free black men he enslaved

[@kolotchelemanassanecouliba178]

@joland shar No, even those who were not slaves, in fact it created a problem with the ulemas

[@thedebunker1777]

Muley Ismail was a black man. Muley Ismail liked black men because he was a black man. Despite the name of the army "Aid Al Bukhari" the blacks were not slaves in the sense that we are used to. The Abid al bukhari were given positions of power and were well paid.

[@elhinm07]

@@thedebunker1777 he was a moroccan, not a black man !

[@thedebunker1777]

@@elhinm07 He was a black Moroccan man

[@xyonentertainmentproductio4909]

@@elhinm07 His mother was an African slave so he was an Afro-African person

[@damienbrown1561]

Had 888 children

[@rakiroussel4437]

Hhhhhhh

[@tzufbb]

You mean the Amazigh

[@frankeinstein719]

Moulay Ismail turned what was a Mediterranean-Berber country into an Afro-Arab one. This is why Moroccans tend to be of darker complexion than other North-Africans/ Middle Easterners.

[@kamelleon9131]

Morocco is a mixture of Arab and berber not black Subsaharian blood is less than 5%

[@rabbiteighteen4012]

That's not true lol

[@nazoflove]

Half black with 850 kids??? Sounds like pretty much everyone in morrocco has African ancestry no matter the DNA percentage

[@lappeldesloups8022]

1% subsaharien 1% arabic 14 % iberique 84 % Amazighs.

[@ChiPpification]

The "Berbers" is a what the Portuguese called the first Moroccans they saw and it means barbarians. The Portuguese where also the pirates who called collored Africans "negro" wich means dark/black ! So knowing this Moroccans including me shouldn't use the word "berber" but Amazigh and which is the right word. The Portugese pirates the Spanish pirates the Dutch pirates the French pirates the Germans pirates who were the BARBARIANS who stole and decapitated and genocided humans to enrich themselfs !! Don't let them fool ya!

[@drew1784]

Racism in Morocco has old roots I see

[@jadthemagnificent]

🤦🏽‍♂️

[@AbdouSefiani]

Racism has old roots everywhere. Only relatively recently has racism began to be seen in a negative light.

[@areudumbstoopidordumbhuh8998]

Just like everywhere else , including sub-saharan africa 😊

[@thedebunker1777]

Muley Ismail was a black man

[@ditocerto]

@@AbdouSefiani you've got to be kidding me or you're just a filthy racist. There are ancient rebellions in the aran world against racism. Old!

[@ditocerto]

Moroccan racism is terrible and has old roots!