Nassira el-Salwi bint Mohammed el-Heyba explained
| Nassira el-Salwi bint Mohammed el-Heyba |
| Spouse: | Moulay Ismail |
| House: | Alaouite (by marriage) |
| Father: | Mohammed el-Heyba ould Normach |
| Religion: | Islam |
Nassira el-Salwi bint Mohammed el-Heyba ould Normach[1] (Arabic: نصيرة السلوي بنت محمد الهيبة ولد نغماش) was a Hassanid princess of the Emirate of Brakna. She was one of the wives of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail.
Biography
Nassira was the daughter of the emir of Brakna, Mohammed el-Heyba ould Normach,[2] the elder branch of Brakna emirs of the Mghafra tribe. Nassira is often confused with her distant cousin Khanatha bint Bakkar from the Mghrafra tribe established in Oued Noun.[3] From this confusion lies uncertainty as to the date of Nassira's marriage, with some sources citing that she married Moulay Ismail between 1678 and 1679,[4] like Khanatha. On the other hand, it is also possible that Nassira was the Hassan Princess who married Moulay Ismail in 1690[5] following a duel he won; preceded by her request for annexation for all the peoples of the Sahara, where this princess gave her hand upon her defeat, as a guarantee of the status of tributary of her people. During the duel, she fought him hard at first, but then allowed herself to be overpowered.
Notes and References
- Book: Kane, Saidou . Histoire de l'esclavage et des luttes anti-esclavagistes en Mauritanie . 2022-01-16 . epubli . 978-3-7549-4101-0 . de . et des Brakna chez lesquels, pourtant, il prendra femme en la personne d'En-Nassira Es-Salwi, fille de l'émir Mohamed el Hayba Ould Nogmach . 2022-12-22.
- Web site: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Études sur l'Islam et les tribus Maures: les Brakna, by Paul Marty . 2022-12-22 . www.gutenberg.org.
- Book: Zayyānī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Aḥmad al- (1734-1833) Auteur du texte . Le Maroc de 1631 à 1812 / de Aboulqâsem ben Ahmed Ezziâni ; publié et traduit par O. Houdas . 1886 . 74 . fr . 2022-10-10.
- Book: Bonte, Pierre . L'émirat de l'Adrar mauritanien: ?arîm, compétition et protection dans une société tribale saharienne . 2008 . KARTHALA Editions . 978-2-8111-0023-0 . 251 . fr . 2022-12-22.
- Book: Thomas Pellow . The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner . 140 . en . In the year 1690, before he was master of Sahra,* there came a woman from that people to him, who, hearing of her coming, went to meet her on horseback, at the head of twenty thousand men. She told him the people of Sahra were desirous to put themselves under his protection, but that he must fight her at lance-play, if he had a mind to have her, at once the pledge of their fidelity and the prize of his victory. She set him hard at first, but afterwards suffered herself to be overpowered, was put among the rest of his women, and troops were sent to protect the frontiers of Sahra.
