{"id":802,"date":"2026-10-13T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckb.adlania.net\/brotherhood-as-an-inheritance\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:55:00","slug":"brotherhood-as-an-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/brotherhood-as-an-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"Brotherhood as an Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Story of a Sufi Order<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today regarded as one of the most prominent figures in Sufism, Sheikh Khaled Bentounes is above all the heir to a spiritual movement whose roots reach back to the great mystics of medieval Islam.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together with Bruno Solt, a writer and specialist in religious studies, he recounts the extraordinary human journey of his forebears. Seeking to revive and enrich Sufism\u2019s timeless spiritual heritage, his great-grandfather, Sheikh Ahmed al-Al\u00e2w\u00ee (1874\u20131934), founded a new Sufi order in Mostaganem in 1909, distinguished by its openness to other religions and to modernity. Yet the founder\u2019s universal outlook did not prevent the French colonial administration from viewing him with suspicion, for he was also a patriot. His son and grandson, who succeeded him, became actively involved in Algeria\u2019s struggle for independence, before themselves being persecuted by an authoritarian and anti-religious FLN.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When his father died of exhaustion before reaching the age of fifty, Khaled Bentounes began a new life in France. Unexpectedly, however, the council of elders of the Al\u00e2wiyya Sufi order appointed him as its spiritual leader. He would go on to give this role an international dimension, promoting interfaith dialogue, environmental awareness and education, notably through the Muslim Scouts of France.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fascinating family saga, shaped by the upheavals of Algerian history, reveals a vision of Islam grounded in universal love and expressed in the realities of social life and modernity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of a Sufi Order Today regarded as one of the most prominent figures in Sufism, Sheikh Khaled Bentounes is above all the heir to a spiritual movement whose roots reach back to the great mystics of medieval Islam. Together with Bruno Solt, a writer and specialist in religious studies, he recounts the extraordinary human journey of his forebears. Seeking to revive and enrich Sufism\u2019s timeless spiritual heritage, his great-grandfather, Sheikh Ahmed al-Al\u00e2w\u00ee (1874\u20131934), founded a new Sufi order in Mostaganem in 1909, distinguished by its openness to other religions and to modernity. Yet the founder\u2019s universal outlook did not prevent the French colonial administration from viewing him with suspicion, for he was also a patriot. His son and grandson, who succeeded him, became actively involved in Algeria\u2019s struggle for independence, before themselves being persecuted by an authoritarian and anti-religious FLN. When his father died of exhaustion before reaching the age of fifty, Khaled Bentounes began a new life in France. Unexpectedly, however, the council of elders of the Al\u00e2wiyya Sufi order appointed him as its spiritual leader. He would go on to give this role an international dimension, promoting interfaith dialogue, environmental awareness and education, notably through the Muslim Scouts of France. This fascinating family saga, shaped by the upheavals of Algerian history, reveals a vision of Islam grounded in universal love and expressed in the realities of social life and modernity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}