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  "en": "Encyclopedia.com, 'Kunti, Mukhtar Al- (1729–1811)'"
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  "ar": "مادة موسوعية عن الشيخ سيدي مختار الكبير الكنتي (1729-1811)، المولود سنة 1729 قرب أروان شمال تمبكتو، من قبيلة كنتة التي تدّعي النسب إلى عقبة بن نافع الفهري؛ تروي تقسيم كنتة إلى فرعين غربي وشرقي وسياق نشأته القبلي والعلمي في جنوب الصحراء.",
  "en": "Encyclopaedia entry on al-Shaykh Sidi-Mukhtar al-Kabir al-Kunti (1729–1811), born in 1729 near Arawan north of Timbuktu, of the widely dispersed Kunta tribe which claims descent from Uqba b. Nafi al-Fihri; it recounts the Kunta's division into western and eastern branches and the tribal and scholarly setting of his upbringing in the southern Sahara."
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  "title": "Kunti, Mukhtar Al- (1729–1811)",
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  "publisher": "Encyclopedia.com",
  "URL": "https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kunti-mukhtar-al-1729-1811",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Tertiary encyclopaedia entry (reproducing a scholarly reference work on African biography and religion), read on 25 October 2026. Used here as a second independent attestation, alongside the English Wikipedia article and the scholarship it cites, of al-Kunti's dates (1729–1811), his Kunta identity and his standing as the Qadiriyya leader of his region and age; it is not used for any detail unique to it.",
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  "status": {
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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