Les kunta de l'est et la maraboutisation de touat et l'espace Sahara-Sahel entre le XVIe et le XIXe siècles

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This article attempts to research the problem of the arrival of Qadri Sufism in the Twat region, and the role of the Kenta tribe in spreading it in Africa.

The Qadriyah method, which found a foothold in the Central Maghreb, was initially a method related to Maliki jurisprudence, to which the Orientals tribe came to the fore.

As they spread the method throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with Sheikh al-Mukhtar al-Kabir al-Kenti and his children, the religion presided over the method, and their relationship with the first generation, represented by Sheikh al-Mughali, who was launched from Tuat and thanks to him for drawing the parameters of the Qadri curriculum in Tuat and Africa.

It is undoubtedly a mysterious and delicate stage around which many problems related to the Kenta tribe and the role of the issue of its Umayyad lineage in the rise of its religious and economic position in Tuat and its transition from the phase of the fighting tribe to the phase of the stationed, knowledgeable, and incubating tribe of Qadri Sufism