Muḥammad al-Mukhtār al-Shinqīṭī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Vikør, Knut S.
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad al-Mukhtār b. Muḥammad b. Sīdī al-Amin b. Ḥabīballāh b. Aḥmad Mazyad al-Jakanī al-Shinqīṭī (b. 1918 or 1919, d. 1986) was a scholar from the Zalāmaṭa division of the Tajakanāt zwāja (religious) tribe in Mauritania. He came from a scholarly family in the region and was taught the Qurʾān by both his mother and his father, a shaykh in the Āl Mazīd clan. In 1937-8 he left for the Ḥijāz with his brother Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh. He studied in Medina and for four years in Mecca