Sulayman al-Hawwat

Abu al-Rabi Sulayman ibn 'Abd Allah al-Hawwat Shafshawani (1747-1816) was a Moroccan historian, biographer and poet. [ Dwight Fletcher "Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literacy Tradition", University of California Press, 2001 p. 279 ]

His books include:
*"Thamarat ansi fi al-ratif bi-nafsi", Morocco : Markaz al-Dirasat wa-al-Buhuth al-Andalusiyah, 1996. (This book-length, first person account covers the author's life and family, including his father's four brothers.)

*"Al Rawda al maqsuda wa-l-halal al-mamduda fi ma'athir Bani Suda by Sulayman al Hawwat" (2vols.), Casablanca, 1994 (on the Banu Suda al-Murri family from Fez)

*"Al-Budiir al-Dawiyya a fi ta'rif bi-'l-Sadat ahl al-Zawiya al-Dila'iya" (An exhaustive treatise on the Dila'yun family)

*Al-Sirr al-Zahir fi man ahraza bi Faz al-sharaf al-bahir min akab al-shaykh Abd al-Kadir, Fez, s.a.

References

*M. Marin, "Knowledge, kinship and mysticism: the formative years of Sulayman al-Hawwat" in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 31(2006)
*Abdelkader Chauoui. "De como los marroquies escribian autobiografias en el siglo XVIII: image y nombre propio."in: Fernandez Parilla Gymmrc. "El Magreb y Europa: literatura y traduccion" ed. Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 1999, pp. 97-116 (article about "Thamara Ansa" by Sulayman al-Hawwat as the paradigm of the autobiography genre)