Boabdil, << `boh` ahb THEEL >> (?-1533?), was the last king of Moorish Granada, now a province in southern Spain (see Granada). Granada was the last Moorish state in Europe. Boabdil ruled as Muhammad XII.
In the 1480’s, Boabdil fought with his father (King Abu-l-Hasan Ali) and his father’s brother al-Zagal for control of Granada. In 1487, Boabdil, aided by the Christian rulers of Castile and Aragon—King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella—occupied the capital, also called Granada. But Ferdinand and Isabella gradually took control of all of the kingdom except the capital. Finally, they besieged the capital and defeated Boabdil in 1492. Boabdil was given estates in Spain but moved to Morocco, where he died.
