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Sayyida al Hurra and the Amazigh North: Female Power and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century Morocco

Sayyida al Hurra and the Amazigh North: Female Power and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century Morocco

Marovar, Elian

Paperback

African History

ISBN13: 9798195406769
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 3 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Power on the Moroccan coast was never quiet.

In sixteenth-century Morocco, Sayyida al Hurra rose from exile, danger, and political pressure to become ruler of Tetouan, one of the most strategic cities of the Amazigh north.

Her story brings together the fall of Granada, Andalusi memory, Iberian expansion, corsair warfare, and the rare rise of a woman in a world dominated by men.

Clear, powerful, and historically grounded, this book reveals how Sayyida al Hurra turned position into authority and became a lasting symbol of female power and resistance in Morocco.

She ruled where power was fragile.

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