Saints, Goats, and Genealogy: The First Volume of al-Yūsī’s Discourses

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 the … Continue reading Saints, Goats, and Genealogy: The First Volume of al-Yūsī’s Discourses