Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri

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

Abu al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Nāṣirī al-Slāwī, (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن خالد الناصري السلاوي; 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.^[2] He wrote an important multivolume history of Morocco: Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa.^[3] 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.^[4]

Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri
أحمد بن خالد الناصري
Born	20 April 1835 Salé, Morocco
Died	13 October 1897 Salé, Morocco
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
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Aḥmad
Patronymic (Nasab)	ibn Khālid ibn Ḥammād
Teknonymic (Kunya)	Abu ’lʿAbbās
Epithet (Laqab)	Shihāb al-Dīn
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Nāṣirī al-Salāwī