Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri as-Slawi, (; 1834/5-1897) was born in
Sla, Morocco 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
The Nasiriyya is a Sufi order founded by Sidi Mohammed ibn Nasir al-Drawi (1603–1674) whose centre was Tamegroute.
See also
* Darqawa (Sufism)
References
Bibliography
* Ph.D. Thesis"Between God and men : the Nasiriyya and economic life in ...
Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume history of
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
: . 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.
[C.R. Pennell ''Morocco Since 1830: A History'', p. 109,]
Notes
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
(retrieved on August 9, 2010)
19th-century Moroccan historians
1835 births
1897 deaths
People from Salé
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