Abu al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Nāṣirī al-Slāwī, (; 1835–1897) was a Moroccan historian considered to be the greatest of the 19th century.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 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.New annotated edition in 8 volumes, Keta Books, 2002 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 putting the finishing touches to his chronicle.C.R. Pennell Morocco Since 1830: A History, p. 109,
He was born in Salé in 20 April or 22 March 1835. He descended from the Arab tribe of Maqil.
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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)
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