Fatima bint al-Ahmar

Fatima bint al-Ahmar (c. 1260–1349) was the Nasrid princess who held her dynasty together through a run of coups and boy sultans. A daughter of Sultan Muhammad II of Granada, she was trained in the barnamaj, the biobibliographies of Islamic scholars, and married her father's cousin and adviser Abu Said Faraj, governor of Málaga.

When her half-brother Nasr grew unpopular she joined the factions against him: her husband rebelled in 1311, and in 1314 their son Ismail deposed Nasr and reigned as Ismail I, the first Nasrid to inherit the throne through the female line. She helped him govern.

She served as guardian when Muhammad IV took the throne at ten and later Yusuf I at fifteen, and Ibn al-Khatib called her 'the Sultan's Grandmother'. She died in 1349; his elegy for her is the only one ever written for a Nasrid princess.