Hisham bin Mohammed
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| name = Hisham bin Mohammed
هشام بن محمد
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| succession = Sultan of Morocco
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| reign = 1792–1797
| predecessor = al-Yazid bin Mohammed
| successor = Sulayman bin Mohammed
| birth_date = 1748
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| death_date = July 1798
| death_place = Marrakesh, Morocco
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| consort = Lalla al-Jerrariya
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| issue = Sultan Moulay Abd al-Rahman
| house = 'Alawi dynasty
| father = Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah
| mother = Princess Lalla Fatima bint Suleiman
| religion = Sunni Islam
| type = monarch
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Moulay Hisham ben Mohammed ({{langx|ar|هشام بن محمد}}), born in 1748 and died in July 1798 in Marrakesh,{{Cite book |last=al-Zayyānī |first=Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad(1734-1833) Auteur du texte |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5598026d |title=Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni; publié et traduit par O. Houdas |date=1886 |pages=179–181 |language=fr}} was Sultan of Morocco from 1792 to 1797. He was proclaimed sultan during the reign of his half-brother Yazid of Morocco, and ended up abandoning the throne when his followers proclaimed Sulayman bin Mohammed their legitimate ruler.
Life
Moulay Hisham was a son of Sidi Mohammed III and his wife Princess Lalla Fatima bint Suleiman.{{Cite book |last=trans. from Arabic by Eugène Fumet |first=Ahmed ben Khâled Ennâsiri |url=http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ClientBin/images/book704908/doc.pdf |title=Kitâb Elistiqsâ li-Akhbâri doual Elmâgrib Elaqsâ [" Le livre de la recherche approfondie des événements des dynasties de l'extrême Magrib "], vol. IX : Chronique de la dynastie alaouie au Maroc |date= |publisher=Ernest Leroux |page=362 |language=fr |quote= |access-date=2022-09-26 |archive-date=2022-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913214538/http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ClientBin/images/book704908/doc.pdf |url-status=dead }} He was proclaimed Sultan in 1792 by the Marrakesh inhabitants, the Rhamna and the Houz tribes during the reign of Sultan Moulay Yazid.{{Cite journal |last=Tseng |first=Vincent S. |title=supp1-3187741.pdf |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3187741/mm1 |access-date=2022-09-26 |doi=10.1109/tnnls.2022.3187741/mm1 |url-access=subscription }} At Tâzkourt happened a battle between Moulay Hisham and his half-brother Sultan Moulay Zayid{{Cite book |last=trans. from Arabic by Eugène Fumet |first=Ahmed ben Khâled Ennâsiri |url=http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ClientBin/images/book704908/doc.pdf |title=Kitâb Elistiqsâ li-Akhbâri doual Elmâgrib Elaqsâ [" Le livre de la recherche approfondie des événements des dynasties de l'extrême Magrib "], vol. IX : Chronique de la dynastie alaouie au Maroc |date= |publisher=Ernest Leroux |page=379 |language=fr |quote= |access-date=2022-09-26 |archive-date=2022-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913214538/http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ClientBin/images/book704908/doc.pdf |url-status=dead }} who was victorious but perished few days later on February 23, 1792, succumbing to an injury. When Moulay Yazid died in 1792, Moulay Sulayman was proclaimed Sultan in Fez{{Cite book |last=Zayyānī |first=Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al- (1734-1833) Auteur du texte |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5598026d |title=Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni; publié et traduit par O. Houdas |date=1886 |pages=168 |language=EN}} and in 1797 Moulay Hicham was abandoned by his supporters who recognized Moulay Sulayman as their legitimate sovereign and abnegated Moulay Hicham as their sultan. As a fallen sovereign, he initially found asylum at zaouia el-Cherradi, before being assigned a residence in Rabat by Moulay Sulayman, until he was granted permission to travel to Marrakesh where he died. Moulay Hicham and his wife a lady of the Jirari family{{Cite book |last=Pennell |first=C. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtBazz0I7uYC&q=uncle |title=Morocco Since 1830: A History |date=2000 |publisher=Hurst |isbn=978-1-85065-426-1 |pages=43 |language=en}} are the parents of Sultan Moulay Abderrahmane, Moulay Sulayman's designed heir.
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