Isabel de Solís

Isabel de Solís (Arabic: ثريا الرومية Thoraya, Soraya, Zoraya) (before 1471 – after 1510) was the slave concubine and later the wife of Abu l-Hasan Ali, Sultan of Granada.

[2] She was noticed by Abu l-Hasan Ali, who fell in love with her, married her and gave her the Daralcotola Palace and several other gifts, and proclaimed that prayers should be said to her in the mosques.

[2] Because Aixa (known as Fatima) was a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the people, especially the religious leaders, saw the marriage between Zoraya and the sultan as a scandal, and the opposition caused a civil war in Granada in 1482.

De Solís was taken captive by the Aixa faction and allowed to live, on condition that Abu l-Hasan Ali give up the throne to his son Boabdil.

[2] Reportedly, she unsuccessfully asked Ferdinand and Isabella through her secretary Hernando de Zafra that her sons be permitted to be exiled to North Africa and remain Muslims.

[2] Isabel de Solís appears as a character in the historical fiction work People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, as does Abu l-Hasan Ali.