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Was Islam's mohammed actually related to the royal family of england?
Burke's Peerage, the authoritative British genealogical registry, formally traced the lineage of Queen Elizabeth II — and by extension King Charles III — back 43 generations to the Prophet Muhammad, publishing this finding in 1986. The key transmitter is a medieval Andalusian princess named Zaida, fourth wife of Alfonso VI of Castile, identified as a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima. This is not fringe speculation: Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa has publicly affirmed the descent. The genealogical chain runs through the Abbadid dynasty of Seville, then through the medieval Spanish nobility, and eventually into the English Plantagenet and Hanover lines.
Evidence
- According to Burke's Peerage's 1986 research, the critical link is Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad, who became ruler of Seville in 1023 and was himself a descendant of the Prophet through the Husayni line — the lineage of Hussein ibn Ali, son of Fatima, Muhammad's daughter.
- From that Abbadid royal house came Princess Zaida, who converted to Christianity and became the consort of Alfonso VI of Castile.
- As History Halls reported in March 2026, that thread reaches the English royal family through the 14th-century Earl of Cambridge, connecting to the Plantagenet dynasty and subsequently the Hanoverian succession from which Elizabeth II and Charles III descend.
- Former Grand Mufti of Egypt Dr. Ali Gomaa, a senior Islamic scholarly authority, has corroborated the connection in public statements, lending it credibility from within the Islamic scholarly tradition — not merely from Western genealogical institutions.
- Skeptics note that medieval Iberian genealogical records are fragmentary and that the identification of Zaida's precise parentage remains contested among some historians.