Abu Abdallah Muhammad VI ibn al-Hasan

So the Spanish invasion force under Don John of Austria installed Abu Abdallah Muhammad in his place.

[2] Ten months after Abu Abdallah Muhammad's installation, a major Ottoman attack was directed at Tunis, led by Sinan Pasha from Tripoli and by Uluç Ali from Algiers.

On 15 July 1574 this force landed on the coast of the Gulf of Tunis and quickly took possession of the Spanish fortress of La Goulette.

Another of his sons, Muley Abderraman, was in Palermo in 1574 and wished to travel to the court in Madrid to swear fealty to Philip II in his father’s name, but the monarch ordered him to remain where he was.

One of the Hafsid refugees in Sicily was Prince Ahmed (known as ‘Hamet’ in Spanish documents), brother of Moulay Hasan.

Hoping to unite the Bedouin tribes against Ottoman rule, he soon found himself abandoned and went into hiding in the interior.