Mukhtar al-Kunti

Sidi al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Kunti
Born1729
Died1811
NationalityTimbuktu
OccupationImam
Known forQadiriyya leader

Sidi al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Kunti (1729-1811) was a leading ʻalim of the Qadiriyya movement in the Western Sudan who played an important role in promoting the spread of Islam in West Africa in the nineteenth century.

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