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Who was Morayma?<\/h1>\n

Morayma, the wife of Boabdil, the last King of Granada.<\/span><\/h4>\n
Ali Atar, a spice merchant and famous general,\u00a0garnered the highest honors of the Nazari kingdom through his great exploits.\u00a0His various titles include\u00a0Mayor of Loja, Lord of Xagra,\u00a0Premier Steward of the Alhambra, and Governor of the Kingdom of Granada. His\u00a0loftiest aspirations came true when his daughter, Morayma, at the age of 15, married Boabdil, heir to the Alhamar throne. Although exceedingly rich, he lived a frugal life, dedicating his income to the defense of the kingdom.\r\n\r\n\u201cAs an example of the patriotism and sacrifices made by this rich mayor,\u201d said the\u00a0historian, Lafuente Alc\u00e1ntara, \u201csuffice it to say that both the jewellery and the dress worn by his daughter Morayma at her wedding were borrowed\u201d.\r\n\r\nA chronicler who attended the wedding banquet explained that the bride wore a black cloth petticoat and shawl, and a white headdress which almost covered her face.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s a pity\u201d, he said, \u201cfor her features are beautiful and seductive\u201d.\r\n\r\nA Muslim poet declared that Morayma had large and expressive eyes on an altogether admirable face and, he conjectured, \u201cthrough the thick clothes you could guess at shoulders, arms, hips and waist of classically opulent proportions\u201d.\r\n\r\nHistorians later referred to her as \u201ctender Morayma\u201d and as the \u201d suffering wife of Boabdil\u201d. Fidel Fern\u00e1ndez said that \u201cfew women have been as unfortunate as she\u201d. A few days after the wedding, Muley Hacen jailed his son Boabdil and \u201cbrutally separated his young wife from him\u201d by confining her to a carmen (grand house with a garden) near the Cuesta del Chapiz. After the battle of Lucena, where Ali Atar died and Boabdil was captured, Morayma and her son Ahmed, then just one year old, retired once again to the carmen, where she suffered \u201cthe long months of her husband\u2019s captivity in Porcuna\u201d.\r\n\r\nFinally, the Castilians freed Boabdil, who agreed, among other conditions, to hand over his son as ransom. Ahmed, who had just turned two, wouldn\u00b4t be returned to his mother until Granada\u00a0was surrendered to the Christians. By then he\u00a0had turned\u00a0nine,\u00a0didn\u00b4t speak Arabic, followed the Christian religion and\u00a0was known as \u201cEl Infantico\u201d (The Young Prince), a nickname given to him by Queen Isabel. Twice Morayma returned alone to the carmen, and again once more with her husband while they awaited their exile in Andarax Manor, assigned to them by the Christians and located in the Alpujarra mountains.\r\n\r\n\u201cNow that you have no kingdom, take refuge in your wife\u2019s bosom\u201d, said Aixa F\u00e1tima to her son, but Morayma, \u201cdethroned without ever\u00a0experiencing the pleasures of the throne\u201d, said one historian, could only offer Boabdil her unrelenting \u00a0devotion, which\u00a0had taken root in the garden of the carmen, where she had been so unhappy\u00a0apart from her husband. From this spot in the Albayz\u00edn, called Mirador de la Esperanza (The Lookout of Hope), Morayma spent long hours contemplating the palace of the Alhambra,\u00a0that in which she was never queen.\r\n\r\nThey moved to Andarax and there they remained until the Castilians,\u00a0reneging once again on their agreement, decided to expel them from Spain.\u00a0This happened \u201cafter the heat of the summer of 1493 had subsided\u201d. Thus, in October, Boabdil, his mother F\u00e1tima, his sister, and his sons, Ahmed and Yusef, together with a small retinue, embarked from the harbour at Adra toward Africa. Morayma \u201cthe only woman Boabdil was known to have loved\u201d, said one chronicler, \u201cthe only being who could have made the suffering of his exile bearable\u201d, died a few days before leaving the Alpujarras.\r\n\r\nShe was buried in the Mosque of \u00a0Mond\u00fajar, the cemetery to where the remains of the sultans Mohammad II, Yusef I, Yusef III, and Abu Saad had been moved from the Alhambra, as cited on page 28 of the Apeo Book (1577), the mosque\u00b4s official register. The body of Morayma was taken to Mond\u00fajar so that she could rest in peace with the Nazari \u00a0Kings. Boabdil ordered the relocation of certain\u00a0items to the Alphaqui of Mond\u00fajar so that he could pray twice a week\u00a0at Morayma`s tomb. He also paid the Ulemas a fee for the service of praying every day for his wife in the mosque (according to the lawsuit between the town\u00b4s church and Giomar de Acu\u00f1a, heir\u00a0to Pedro de Zafra, Major of Mond\u00fajar in 1500. The manuscript is kept in the general archives of the Archbishop of Granada).<\/pre>\n
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\u201cSoon after Boabdil had embarked for his exile in Morocco\u201d, said Fidel Fern\u00e1ndez, \u201cthe Christians confiscated the allowance allocated for Morayma`s prayers. These funds were used for the construction of a church to be\u00a0established on the grounds of the mosque, which was demolished without objection.\u201d This final injustice\u00a0concluded the memory of Morayma, whose corpse had traveled in the utmost secrecy, through the\u00a0sweltering\u00a0valleys, from the prison in the Alpujarra (the old Cobdaa), through Alquer\u00eda, to Mond\u00fajar.\r\n\r\nFrancisco Izquierdo, a poet from\u00a0Granada<\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Who was Morayma? Morayma, the wife of Boabdil, the last King of Granada. Ali Atar, a spice merchant and famous general,\u00a0garnered the highest honors of the Nazari kingdom through his great exploits.\u00a0His various titles include\u00a0Mayor of Loja, Lord of Xagra,\u00a0Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\nAbout Us - Mirador de Morayma<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/miradordemorayma.com\/quienes-somos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Us - Mirador de Morayma\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who was Morayma? 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