Al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Kunti was born in 1729 in the Erg Oralla region to the north of Mabrouk, Mali.
13 Facts About Mukhtar al-Kunti
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Mukhtar al-Kunti's family belonged to the Zawaya, a group of tribes that had abandoned violence and self-defense in favor of a peaceful life of religious devotions and herding, paying tribute to the warrior groups to avoid molestation.
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Mukhtar al-Kunti was a member of the influential Kunta clerical tribe, originally Arab descendants of Uqba ibn Navi Al Fihri.
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John Hunwick suggested that between 1754 and 1757 al-Mukhtar al-Kunti studied in Morocco.
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Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti did not leave West Africa in his education, or in the rest of his life.
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Mukhtar al-Kunti made his base at Azawad, about 250 miles to the northeast of Timbuktu.
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Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti had outstanding leadership abilities in addition to his scholarship and spiritual qualities.
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Mukhtar al-Kunti gave spiritual advice to the Ullimiden tribal chief Kawa Ag Amma.
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Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti was a prolific author, said to have written three hundred treatises on aspects of Islam and its practices.
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Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti strongly believed that a shaykh should lead by example, following a pure asceticism informed by Islamic truth.
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Mukhtar al-Kunti trained clerics so they could establish Islamic schools in the pagan countries, and these schools could in turn spread the word further.
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Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti's pupil Shaykh Sidya al-Kabir was an influential Qadiriyya cleric in Mauritania.
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Al-Mukhtar al-Kunti taught both Usman dan Fodio and Seku Amadu of the Massina Empire.