Yusuf Biscaino

Yusuf Biscaino, also Ahmad b. Abd Allah al-Hayti al-Maruni (Arabic: أحمد بن عبدالله), was a Morisco in the service of the Moroccan Sultan Mulay Zidan.

[1] He met with Prince Maurice of Nassau who inquired to him about Islamic opinions on Jesus.

He preferred not to answer on the spot, but later sent a letter to Maurice[1] After returning to Marrakesh, Yusuf Biscaino sent the letter in Latin to Maurice in 1611, relying as a source on the work of Muhammad Alguazir.

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