Al-Hasan al-Yusi
Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn Masud al-Yusi was a Moroccan Sufi writer. He is considered to be the greatest Moroccan scholar of the seventeenth century and was a close associate of the first Alaouite sultan Rashid.
Of his autobiography, Al-Fahrasa, only the introduction and first section have survived and these were, until recently, unpublished. His better known text Al-Muhadrat also contains many autobiographical passages. Both texts are remarkable for the author's frank discussions of childhood misdeeds, the pleasures of his conjugal sex life, and other intimate details of his personal life. Al-Yusi's Daliyya of his Shaikh Muhammad b. Nasir al-Dari of the Zawiya Nasiriyya of Tamegroute, is famous both in Morocco and West Africa.