Editing Ismail Ibn Sharif (section)

==Legacy==
{{History of Morocco}}
After nearly a century of difficulty and division, Morocco had experienced peace under Moulay Ismail, who had pacified all parts of the country. His reign is considered a golden age in the country's history, during which it experienced, security, tranquility, and order. The historian Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri, who recorded the whole history of Morocco in this period, declared: 
{{blockquote|The evildoers and troublemakers no longer knew where to shelter, where to seek refuge: no land wanted to bear them, no sky would cover them.<ref group="alN" name="al-Nasiri 135">{{harvsp|al-Nasiri|1906|p=135}}.</ref>|Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri, ''Kitab Al-Istiqsa''}}

Moulay Ismail accomplished the political reunification of the whole country, the formation of its main military force – the Black Guard or Abid al-Bukhari, as well as the [[Jaysh al-Rifi]], and recaptured several coastal cities from the Europeans. He had considerably extended Moroccan territory,<ref group="alN" name="al-Nasiri 138">{{harvnb|al-Nasiri|1906|p=138}}.</ref> and undertook an extraordinary amount of construction.<ref group="alN" name="al-Nasiri 139">{{harvnb|al-Nasiri|1906|p=139}}.</ref>

After Moulay Ismaïl's death at the age of eighty (or around ninety by the 1634 birthdate) in 1727, there was another succession battle between his surviving sons. His successors continued with his building program, but in 1755 the huge palace compound at Meknes was severely damaged by [[1755 Lisbon earthquake|an earthquake]]. By 1757 his grandson, [[Mohammed III of Morocco|Sidi Mohammad III]] moved the capital to Marrakesh.{{Citation needed|date = December 2012}}

Ismail ibn Sharif is mentioned in chapter 11 of [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]''. The character of the sultan in the novel "The Sultan's Wife" by [[Jane Johnson (writer, born 1960)|Jane Johnson]] is based on Moulay Ismaïl. In [[Marguerite Henry]]'s ''[[King of the Wind]]'' "Sultan Mulai Ismael, Emperor of all Morocco" sends six [[Arabian horse]]s to [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]], "the boy-King of France".<ref>
{{Cite book
  | last = Henry
  | first = Marguerite
  | title = King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
  | publisher = Aladdin: Reissue edition
  | year = 2006
  | pages = 48, 50
  | isbn = 978-1-4169-2786-0}}</ref>