Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri

Not to be confused with 17th/18th century Sufi writer Ahmed ibn Nasir.

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri as-Slawi, (Arabic: أحمد بن خالد الناصري; 1835–1897) was born in Salé, Morocco and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century.^[1] 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 duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa.^[2] 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.^[3]

Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri
Born	1835 Salé, Morocco
Died	1897
Occupation(s)	Historian, Scholar
Academic work
Era	19th century
Main interests	Moroccan history, Islamic west history
Notable works	Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa

Notes

1. David Robinson, Jean-Louis Triaud, Ghislaine Lydon, Le temps des marabouts: itinéraires et stratégies islamiques en Afrique occidentale francaise v. 1880-1960, p. 136, Paris: Karthala editions, 1997, Islam and state ISBN 2-86537-729-6
2. New annotated edition in 8 volumes, Keta Books, 2002
3. C.R. Pennell Morocco Since 1830: A History, p. 109,

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)