Abu al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Nāṣirī al-Slāwī, (; 1835–1897) was born in

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, 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

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order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume history of

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: '' Kitab al-Istiqsa li-Akhbar duwal 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.C.R. Pennell ''Morocco Since 1830: A History'', p. 109,

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*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 {{Morocco-writer-stub