Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
المهدي بن تونس
al-Ḥājj al-Mahdī Bentounès
Shaykh of the ʿAlawiyya; father and trainer of Khaled Bentounès
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from al-Ḥājj al-Mahdī Bentounès
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Shaykh Khaled BentounèsLiving, as of Oct 2026خالد بن تونسb. 1949
one sourcein Shādhiliyya
successor of · al-Ḥājj al-Mahdī Bentounès to Shaykh Khaled Bentounès · One source
Official biography: trained by his father Hajj al-Mahdī at the zawiya and became the 44th spiritual guide on 24 April 1975.
the community's own account: Cheikh Khaled Bentounes, official biography (AISA-linked)Checked against
- religion.info, Haenni dossier 2009, introduction · agreesDescribes the order as led today by Shaykh Khaled Bentounès, living at Antibes.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “al-Ḥājj al-Mahdī Bentounès”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/mahdi-bentounes (data of 31 October 2026).