Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti

Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti was the son and chosen successor of Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, and after his father's death he led the Qadiriyya of the Azawad and the western Sahara. In the devotional order of the Bidan he embodies the hereditary character of Saharan sainthood, the conviction that baraka descends within a saintly house, and he is remembered as the master under whom the young Sidiyya al-Kabir studied when the future saint of Boutilimit travelled to the Kunta country to receive their blessing and their teaching. Through that transmission the Qadiri current of the Kunta passed westward into the tribes of Trarza and southern Mauritania.

Parentage

• Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti

Domains

• sufi sainthood
• baraka blessing

Powers

• inherits and transmits the paternal blessing

Epithets

• خليفة والده

Relations

• parent: Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti
• companion: Cheikh Sidiyya al-Kabir

Sources

• Aziz A. Batran, The Qadiriyya Brotherhood in West Africa and the Western Sahara (2001).
• Charles C. Stewart, Islam and Social Order in Mauritania (Oxford, 1973).