Al-Yūsī’s Discourses: Situating a Sufi Scholar in a Vivid Seventeenth-Century Morocco

The peripatetic al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was in his fifties, and arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual of his generation, when he found himself sent by Moulay Ismāʿīl to live near the ruins of the Dilāʾ Sufi lodge. It was in this moment, when he was under quasi–house arrest by Morocco’s second Alawite ruler, that … Continue reading Al-Yūsī’s Discourses: Situating a Sufi Scholar in a Vivid Seventeenth-Century Morocco