Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi

Abd al-Malik
أبو مروان عبد الملك الغازي
Abd al-Malik crushed the Portuguese at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578.
Sultan of Morocco
Reign1576 – 1578
PredecessorAbu Abdallah Mohammed
SuccessorAhmad al-Mansur
Bornc. 1541
Marrakesh Morocco Saadi Sultanate
Died4 August 1578
(aged 37)
Qasr al-Kabir Morocco
BurialAugust 1578
SpouseZahara bint Agi Morato
IssueMoulay Ismail al-Sâadi
Names
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik bin Mohammed al-Shaykh al-Saadi
Era dates
16th Century
DynastySaadian dynasty
FatherMohammed al-Shaykh
MotherSahaba al-Rehmania
ReligionSunni Islam
Military career
AllegianceMorocco Morocco
(1554–1557)

Ottoman
(1557–1576)

Morocco Morocco
(1576–1578)
Years of service(c. 1554 – 1578)
Battles / warsBattle of Tadla (1554)
Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Conquest of Tunis (1574)
Battle of al-Rukn (1576)
Battle of al-Makhazin (1578)

Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I (Arabic: أبو مروان عبد الملك الغازي), often simply Abd al-Malik or Mulay Abdelmalek, (b. 1541 – d. 4 August 1578) was the Saadian Sultan of Morocco from 1576 until his death right after the Battle of al-Kasr al-Kabir against Portugal in 1578.