Ahmed ibn Nasir al-Dar'i (Arabic: احمد بن ناصر الدرعي) (sometimes spelled Bennacer) (1647–1717) was a Moroccan Sufi writer and head of the zawiya of the Nasiriyya brotherhood at Tamegroute, son of its founder Mohammed ibn Nasir.[1] He made six pilgrimages to Mecca, travelling to Ethiopia, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Persia. During his travels he established new branches of the Sufi brotherhood. He wrote a series of memoirs of his journeys called the Rihla (partly translated by A. Berbrugger in 1846).[2] He brought back numerous books from all parts of the Islamic world, which formed the basis of the library at Tamegroute.
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^David Gutelius, "Sufi Networks and the social contexts for scholarship in Morocco and the Northern Sahara 1660-1830" in: Scott Steven Reese, The transmission of learning in Islamic Africa,ed. BRILL, 2004, ISBN978-90-04-13779-0, p. 20
^translation and summary in French by Briga, published as lithograph in two volumes in 1902. see: Lévi-Provencal, Mu'arrikhu al-Shurafa, p. 207
Nico van den Boogert, Muhammad Awzalî, The Berber Literary Tradition of the Souls: With an Edition and Translation, page 158 - Berber languages - 1997 Edition and translation N. van den Boogert
"A Sous Berber poem on Sidi Ahmad ibn Nasir", in: Études et Documents Berberes, vol. 9 (1992), pp. 121–137
Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Nasir, Kitab al-tarikh al-tariqa, ed. Bibliothèque Générale et Archives Rabat (BGAR) MS/D 2167
