Ahmed al-Salawi

Ahmad ibn Mohammed ibn Nasir al-Salawi (1791 in Sale – 1840 in Sudan) was a 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]

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

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 Archived 2005-04-07 at the Wayback Machine (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