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" Kunta-Ḥājjī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kemper, Michael
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English
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1062556
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ALei2953
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Kemper, Michael
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Shikhaliev, Shamil
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Kunta-Ḥājjī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kemper, Michael
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,061 words)
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Kunta-Ḥājjī al-Iliskhānī (Kishiev) (c.1800–67) was a Chechen Ṣūfī master, the eponymous founder of the Kunta-Ḥājjī branch of the Qādiriyya brotherhood active in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Daghestan; this branch is well-known for its dhikr dance practice (the Qādiriyya is a widespread Ṣūfī order of which ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī, d. 561/1166, a Ḥanbalī scholar active in Baghdad, became, after his death, the namesake and patron; dhikr (lit., remembrance) is the central Ṣūfī devotional exercise, in which participants recite a name or series of names
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Islam.
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ALei2953.pdf
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