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