Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi

Abd al-Malik
أبو مروان عبد الملك الغازي
Saadi Sultan
Reign1576 – 1578
PredecessorAbu Abdallah Mohammed
SuccessorAhmad al-Mansur
Bornc. 1541
Marrakesh, Saadi Sultanate
Died4 August 1578
(aged 37)
Ksar el-Kebir, Saadi Sultanate
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
AllegianceSaadi Sultanate (1554–1557)
Ottoman Empire (1557–1576)
Saadi Sultanate
(1576–1578)
Service yearsc. 1554 – 1578
ConflictsBattle of Tadla (1554)
Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Conquest of Tunis (1574)
Capture of Fez (1576)
Battle of Alcácer Quibir (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 from 1576 until his death right after the Battle of Alcácer Quibir against Portugal in 1578.