marabout

How To Use marabout In A Sentence

• The text centers on the compound of one marabout whose home is filled both inside and out with devotional imagery and serves as a site for the meetings of talibes (followers).
• For example, a marabout (traditional healer) may advise a sick person to write on a prayer board passages from the holy Koran.
• At the initial condolence ceremony, the marabout officiates, transmitting his religious blessing or benediction (called al baraka) to the guests.
• Also important among all groups are Koranic or Islamic scholars, often called marabouts, who serve as religious scholars and scribes and, in the countryside, combine legal, medical, and religious professions.
• The feathers of the African species, however, are far less beautiful and valuable than those from the tail of the adjutant; and it is these last that are really best known as _marabout feathers_, in consequence of the mistake made by The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
• Leila and of his marabout father; his pilgrimage when eight years old to Mecca, and his education in Italy; his visions among the tombs, and the crown of magic light which was seen on his brows when he began to taste the enchanted apple; then, with adolescence, the burning sense of infidel tyranny that made his home at Mascara seem only a cage, barred upon him by the unclean Franks; and soon, while still a youth, his amazing election as emir of Mascara and sultan of Oran, at a moment when the prophet-chief had just four _oukias_ (half-dimes) tied into the corner of his bornouse! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
• In the indigenous Berber religion, the holy men, called marabouts, were thought to be endowed by God with special powers.
• It is hard to say why the French foster these Arab maraboutic tendencies as opposed to the saner ideals of the Berber stock; perhaps they think it politic to _arabize_ the older race in this and a few other particulars, though it signifies, almost invariably, a retrograde movement of civilization. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
• During the rest of the film he tries to work out who could have cursed him and visits two marabouts to find a cure.
• At the mosque, the marabout and the father give the baby an Arabic name from the Koran.