Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri
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Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi, (1834/5-1897) was born in Salé
and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya
Sufi order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume history of Morocco
: Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa . The work is a general history of Morocco and the Islamic west from the Islamic conquest to the end of the 19th century. He died in 1897 shortly after having put the finishing touches to his chronicle.
Salé
Salé is a city in north-western Morocco, on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat, for which it serves as a commuter town...
and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya
Nasiriyya
The Nasiriyya is a Sufi order founded by Sidi Mohammed ibn Nasir al-Drawi whose centre was Tamegroute-Bibliography:* Ph.D. Thesis: by David Gutelius. Johns Hopkins University, 2001....
Sufi order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume history of Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
: Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa . The work is a general history of Morocco and the Islamic west from the Islamic conquest to the end of the 19th century. He died in 1897 shortly after having put the finishing touches to his chronicle.
External links
- M. Th. Houtsma, E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 1, BRILL, 1993, p. 468-9, entry "Al-Slawi" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sP_hVmik-QYC&pg=PA469&dq=slawi&hl=nl&ei=KSlfTJ2GNoqoOIDjlL0J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=slawi&f=false (retrieved on August 9, 2010)