Ahmed ibn Nasir

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.