Creator: Mouvement des Jeunes Khadres (Qadiriyya Youth Movement)

Contributing Institutions: Maria Grosz-Ngate and Toba Diagne Haïdara; Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University

Description: Kunta spiritual genealogy and religious heritage. Top half of document shows the founder, Shaykh Buh Kunta, followed by the sons who succeeded him and their years in the khalifate. El Haj Mame Buh Mamadu Kunta, who became khalif on April 29, 2006, was the first of the grandsons to become khalif. The bottom half represents the spiritual chain that links the reigning khalif to the Kunta scholarly lineages of the Sahara desert down to the illustrious scholar and jurist Sidi Ahmed al-Bekkaï Kunta (d. 1514) and the earliest Kunta ancestor and, through him, to the family of the Prophet Mohamed. The second page is an Arabic version of the same document.

Date: 2006

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Location: Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Format: Text/jpeg

Language: French
Arabic

Rights Management: For educational use only.

Digitizer: Maria Grosz-Ngate

Source: Makhtar (Njaga) Kone, President, Mouvement des Jeunes Khadres (Qadiriyya Youth Movement)