Ahmed al-Salawi explained

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:

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