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Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi (Arabic: أحمد الشريف السنوسي) (1873 – 10 March 1933) was the supreme leader of the Senussi order (1902–1933), although his leadership in the years 1917–1933 could be considered nominal.
Idris of Libya (Sidi Muhammad Idris al-Mahdi al-Senussi), king 1951–1969. In 1902, Muhammad Idris died and was succeeded by his nephew, Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi, but his adherents in the deserts bordering Egypt maintained for years that Muhammad was not dead. [1]
Prince Ahmed Al-Zubair al-Senussi, also known as Zubeir Ahmed El-Sharif (Arabic: أحمد الزبير الشريف السنوسي; born 1934) [citation needed] is a Libyan member of the Senussi house and a member of the National Transitional Council representing political prisoners.
Leader of the Senussi Order in Libya between 1902 and 1917. The grandson of the founder of the Senussi Order in the Libyan province of Cyrenaica in the 1840s, Ahmad Sharif as-Senussi led Cyrenaica’s resistance to Italian occupation after ...
Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi (Arabic: أحمد الشريف السنوسي) (1873 – 10 March 1933) was the supreme leader of the Senussi order (1902–1933), although his leadership in the years 1917–1933 could be considered nominal.
Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi, the supreme leader of the Senussi order, although his leadership between the years could be considered nominal. His daughter, Fatima el-Sharif was the Queen consort of King Idris I of Libya.
Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi (Arabic: أحمد الشريف السنوسي) (1873 – 10 March 1933) was the supreme leader of the Senussi order (1902–1933), although his leadership in the years 1917–1933 could be considered nominal. His daughter, Fatimah el-Sharif was the Queen consort of King Idris I of Libya.
From 1917 to his death, in 1933, Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi's leadership was mostly nominal. Idris of Libya, a grandson of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi, the Grand Senussi, replaced Ahmed as effective leader of the Order in 1917 and went on to play a key role as the Senussi leader who brought the Libyan tribes together into a unified Libyan nation.
On 11 February 1916, 500 Senussi and Sayyid Ahmed ash-Sharif occupied the oasis at Bahariya, just before Peyton was ready to begin a march from Matruh to Sollum. The Senussi were seen by air observers from a 17 Squadron detachment at Faiyum.
Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi was the third-generation supreme leader of the Senussi Order and first Emir of Cyrenaica, being installed as a nominal vasall of the Ottoman Empire in 1919.
