Halima Al Sufyaniyah

Halima al-Sufyaniyah
SpouseMoulay Ismail
IssueMoulay Zeydan
HouseAlaouite (by marriage)
FatherSheikh Ali bin Hussein al-Sufiyani
ReligionIslam

Lalla Halima al-Sufiyaniyah (Arabic: حليمة السفيانية) was one of the wives of Moulay Ismail and the mother of Prince Moulay Zeydan (not to confuse with Prince Moulay Mohammed Zeydan, the latter's older half-brother). Lalla Halima was very active in the socio-political life of Morocco during the reign of her husband, she oversaw army salaries, gifts protocol to the Ulamas, issued donations for schools and left a building heritage to Morocco.

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