fl. 1223/1808
Sources
See: Muʿjam ʿAṣṣāba wa-Tagānt 39; Ould al-Bara 53.
Biography
Aḥmad b. Yadsir b. Aḥmad Kaffāt was of the Māsina tribe whose homeland is located south of Tichitt; this is why they are called the people of “the near-south” (az-Zar al-Gablī) in opposition to the people of the “near-north” (az-Zar as-Sāḥilī) in the custom of the inhabitants of Tīchitt, the latter indicating the lands inhabited by the Sharīfians (the clan of ʿAbd al-Muʾmin) and the ‘discip…