Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa

Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa (c. 1460–1563) was a Moroccan Sufi sheikh of the Jazula confederation in the Anti-Atlas mountains of the Sous. He studied Islam in Marrakesh and travelled widely in the east before returning in 1521 to Tazerwalt, where he founded a zawiya that drew hundreds of disciples and gave rise to the Tazerwalt dynasty.

Keeping good relations with the ruling Saadian dynasty, he turned his religious authority into an enclave of power. He died in 1563, and his tomb in the zawiya became a pilgrimage site; his descendants inherited much of his wealth and standing.