Aouda Doukalia (Arabic: عودة دكالية) was one of the wives of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail and the mother of Sultan Mostadi ben Ismail.[1]

Aouda Doukalia
SpouseMoulay Ismail
IssueMostadi ben Ismail
Moulay Bi'Nassir[1]
Moulay al-Hussein[1]
HouseAlaouite (by marriage)
ReligionIslam

She was native of Doukkala.[2] In 1738 she entered in negotiations with the General of the Abid al-Bukhari[3] to seat her son Moulay Mostadi on the throne.[3] They accepted and crowned him in place of Sultan Mohammed ben Ismail who was thus overthrown.[3]

Her son Moulay Mostadi sealed stronger alliances than his predecessors,[3] he was the greatest obstacle for Moulay Abdallah and several battles resulted between these two sultans.[4][5]

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  1. ^ a b c مولاي عبد الرحمان, بن زيدان. المنزع اللطيف في مفاخر المولى إسماعيل ابن الشريف. مكتبة نور. p. 392. and Sultan Mostadi and his full brothers Bi'nassir and al-Hussein as well as others not named, their mother is Aouda Doukalia
  2. ^ Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri 1906, p. 208.
  3. ^ a b c d Chenier, Louis-Sauveur de (1787). Recherches historiques sur les Maures, et histoire de l'empire de Maroc (in French). Bailly. p. 448.
  4. ^ Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri 1906, p. 217.
  5. ^ Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri 1906, pp. 220–221.

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