8vo. Volume I: 331 pp., [3 pp., contents] / Volume II: 208 pp., Arabic lithographed text within borders, modern hard back binding, papers slightly browned, margin of page 309 in Volume II repaired, few worm holes on margins not affecting text, from the private library of Khair al-Din al-Zarkali whose name is stamped in ink on title page, Moroccan Lithographic Printing, Fez, 1309 A. H./ 1891.

Synopsis

Al-Nasiri is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a descendant of the family that founded the Nasiriya Sufi order in the 17th century. He was a prominent scholar and wrote an important multi volume history of Morocco: 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.
An abstract text of this work was translated into French by Jean Bodin and published in 1918 at “Archives Berberes”. This book is considered the most important work dealing with Ansab in North African countries.