Ahmed al-Salawi explained

• For Al-Salawi, the author of al-Istiqsa see Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri

Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Nasir al-Salawi (; 1791 in Sale – 1840 in Sudan) was a Moroccan Maliki scholar, Sufi teacher and writer, who played an important role in Sudan during the reign of the colonial Turkish-Egyptian administration.^[1] Al-Salawi was closely connected with Sudanese scholars like Ahmad ibn Isa al-Ansari, Ahmad al-Tayyib w. al-Bashir (whose daughter he married) and Ismail ibn Abd Allah al-Wali.^[2]

Works

Al-Salawi wrote the following books:

• al-Dhayl., Publ. Tabaqat Wad Dayf Allah, al-dhayl wa'l-takmila, ed. Muhammad Ibrahım Abü Salım & Yüsuf Fadl H˘asan, Khartoum 1982.
• al-Durr al-manzum fı asanıdina fı sa'ir al-'ulum.
• Ishraq masabih al-tanwır fı sharh Mawlid al-bashır al-nadhır, MS: al-Maktaba al-baladiyya, Alexandria, majmüfia, alif 139.
• Ithaf ahl al-sidq, MS: Yale, L-9, 367ff., 1842,
• al-Jawhar al-maknun wa'l-sirr al-masun alladhı tataqarrab ilayhi al-fiuyun
• al-Minah al-samadiyya fı ikhtisar al-Hadıqa al-nadiyya fı shar al-Tarıqa al-Muhammadiyya wa'l-sıra al-Ahmad-iyya, MS: Cairo, Dar al-kutub, tasawwuf, 171.
• Risala (Untitled and undated. A brief work in commendation of Ismaıl b. Abd Allah al-Walı and his tarıqa.) MS: National Records Office, Khartoum, Misc., Ismaıliyya 2, 292–300.
• Sharh ala aqıdat al-Risala fı 'l-basmala wa'l-hamdala
• Sharh ala 'l-Arba'ın al-Nawawiyya
• Sharh ala 'l-Ibtihaj bi'l-kalam [or fı 'l-kalam] ala 'l-isra wa'l-mi raj, MS: al-Maktaba al-baladiyya, Alexandria, majmüfia alif, 139.
• Tazım al-ittifaq fı ayat al-mıthaq

References

1. R.S. O'Fahey, A Colonial Servant: Al-Salawi and The Sudan http://www.smi.uib.no/sa/12/12Salawi.pdf (retrieved on January 27, 2010)
2. John O. Hunwick, R. S. O'Fahey, The writings of Eastern Sudanic Africa to c. 1900, Part 1, Volume 13, BRILL, 1994, p.58