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Abd al-Haqq II (Abd al-Haqq ibn Uthman Abu Muhammad) (1419-1465) was Marinid Sultan of Morocco from 1420 to 1465.Abd al-Haqq II was made Sultan in 1420 under the regency of an Wattasid vizier and later was nominal Sultan under Wattasid control until 1465.Abd al-Haqq was the son of Sultan Abu Said Uthman III who made an unsuccessful attempt to recover Ceuta from the Portuguese in 1419.This led to instability in the Marinid state culminating in a coup in Fez in 1420 in which Abu Said Uthman III was assassinated.At that time his son and heir Abd al-Haqq was just one year old.

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