Sayyida al-Hurra

Lalla ʿĀʾisha bint ʿAlī ibn Rāshid al-ʿAlamī, commonly known as Sayyida al-Ḥurra, was a Moroccan privateer who governed the city of Tétouan from 1515 to 1542. As the wife of Moroccan king Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad, who was her second husband, she belonged to the Wattasid dynasty. She is considered to be "one of the most important female figures of the Islamic West in the modern age."