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  1. Kunta (tribe) — Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunta_(tribe)Descent claim from ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ; Qayrawan; formation in the 15th or 16th century; scholarship and trade; oversight of dealings in Tuat and Taoudenni in the 19th century.
  2. Kunta family — Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunta_familySpread across northern Mali and southern Mauritania; the scholarly lineage's influence; the Gao library (3,000+ manuscripts); Zawiyat al-Kunti in Badjinde; the Ahmed Baba Institute.
  3. Mukhtar al-Kunti — Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhtar_al-KuntiBorn 1729 in Azawad; orphaned; Shaykh Sidi ʿAli ibn al-Najib; Shaykh of the order in 1754; al-Hilla; some 300 works; al-Minna; the siege of Timbuktu lifted 1770–1771; died 1811.
  4. Ahmad al-Bakkai al-Kunti — Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_al-Bakkai_al-Kunti1803–1865; protection of Heinrich Barth in 1853.
  5. Uqba ibn Nafi — Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uqba_ibn_Nafi622–683; the conquest of the Maghreb.
  6. Ksar el Barka — Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksar_el_BarkaFounded by the Kunta in 1690 as a caravan station; declared a sanctuary in 1753; fell in 1905.
  7. Touat — Encyclopaedia Britannica; Zaouiet Kounta — Wikipediahttps://www.britannica.com/place/Touathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaouiet_KountaZaouiet Kounta as a settlement of Touat, Adrar Province; the oases as caravan stops at the northern end of the Tanezrouft route.
  8. كنتة — Arabic Wikipediahttps://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/كنتةThe unifying ancestor; the name from a maternal ancestor; spread across the four countries; eastern and western branches; Sidi ʿUmar al-Shaykh.
  9. Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī — EBSCO Research Startershttps://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/sidi-al-mukhtar-al-kuntiBeginnings in the salt trade; head of the order at twenty-five; reconciling the two Kunta branches; settlement between Tuareg and Arab groups; the Mukhtariyya.
  10. Kunti, Mukhtar al- (1729–1811) — Encyclopedia of Religion (Encyclopedia.com)https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kunti-mukhtar-al-1729-1811The Mukhtariyya litany in southern Mauritania and Hausaland; Sidi Muhammad (1765–1826).
  11. The Kunta of the Sahara — Oxford Bibliographieshttps://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0248.xmlProminence in Azawad under Sidi al-Mukhtar (d. 1811) and Sidi Muhammad (d. 1826).
  12. The Meanings of Timbuktu (HSRC/CODESRIA, 2008) — chapters on the Shaykh, his son and his workshttps://publication.codesria.org/…/4150https://publication.codesria.org/…/4152https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/2421/Meanings_Timbuktu.pdfSidi Ahmad al-Bakkay's tomb at Walata; Sidi Muhammad in Timbuktu 1818–1819, d. 1826; his successors; al-Risāla al-Ghallāwiyya.
  13. Batran, A. A. — The Qadiryya Brotherhood in West Africa and the Western Sahara (Rabat, 2001); and the chapter in Studies in West African Islamic History (1979)https://search.worldcat.org/title/oclc/50194031https://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=190037857The standard monograph on the Shaykh and the tribe; the dates 1729–1811.
  14. The Sidiyya Network — Africa Online Digital Library (MSU)https://aodl.org/islamicmodernity/sidiyyababa/essays/178-673-6/The Qadiriyya as Bakkaiyya and Mukhtariyya; Sidi ʿUmar al-Shaykh in the 16th century; Shaykh Sidiyya al-Kabir and Boutilimit.
  15. Diagayété, M. — Barth à Tombouctou (reviewed in Journal des africanistes)https://journals.openedition.org/africanistes/14362?lang=enBarth's arrival in Timbuktu in September 1853; al-Bakkay's letter to the ruler of Massina.
  16. Library of Congress — the al-Bakkay correspondencehttps://www.loc.gov/item/2021667256https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668183/Copies of the correspondence held at the Library of Congress.
  17. Key Dates in the History of Timbuktu — Tombouctou Manuscripts Project (UCT)https://tombouctoumanuscripts.uct.ac.za/articles/2013-02-13-key-dates-history-timbuktuThe Shaykh's death in 1811; Kunta influence in the town; the French capture of 1894.
  18. Moos, E. — The Literary Works of Shaykh Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (UCT, 2011)https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/13447/1/thesis_hum_2011_moos_e.pdfSome 300 treatises; the zawiya at al-Hilla; al-Minna fī Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunna.
  19. Clingendael — traditional authority structures in Mali, Niger and Libya (2019)https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2019/…The Kounta among the Arab groups of Mali.
  20. Southern Saharan Scholarship and the Bilad al-Sudan — Journal of African Historyhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/…/D381A8754F843EA43E6188C46ACEF047Kunta presence in the Hodh and Tagant; Kunta scholars and libraries among the Shinqiti communities.
  21. ولاية تكانت — Arabic Wikipediahttps://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ولاية_تكانتAn old town in Tagant founded by the Kunta in 1690.