El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh

El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh stands among the oases and grazing lands south of the Saharan Atlas. It is associated with the Sufi teacher Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad, known as Sidi Cheikh, whose tomb made the settlement a centre of devotion. After his death in the early seventeenth century, his descendants and followers carried his influence across the region. The zawiya at El Abiodh became a focus for a wider network, linking settled oasis communities with the nomadic peoples of the steppe and desert.