Abdallah ben Aisha

Abdallah ben Aisha (Arabic: عبد الله بن عائشة), also Abdellah bin Aicha, was a Moroccan Admiral and ambassador to France and England in the 17th century.

[1] His embassy followed the visit of François Pidou de Saint Olon to Morocco in 1689.

[1] He also met with the deposed English king James II, exiled in France at that time, whom he had apparently known in his youth when he had been a captive in England.

[1] Louis XIV however denied a treaty, and on the contrary boasted about his power to the Moroccan king.

[1] After Abdallah's return to Morocco, numerous letters continued to be exchanged with France, and the Moroccan ruler Mulay Ismail even offered James II military support to reinstall him on the English throne if he wished to convert to Islam, and if not, at least to Protestantism.