Moroccan Sa'adi Triumph

1578

The Sa'adi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, brother of the slain Moulay Abdallah, emerged from the Battle of the Three Kings as the new ruler of Morocco. Enriched by Portuguese ransoms and European respect, he consolidated a Moroccan golden age that would soon reach across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ahmad al-Mansur's later Songhai conquest and sugar wealth made Morocco one of the Islamic world's most powerful states.