How To Use Marabout In A Sentence
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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).
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For example, a marabout (traditional healer) may advise a sick person to write on a prayer board passages from the holy Koran.
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At the initial condolence ceremony, the marabout officiates, transmitting his religious blessing or benediction (called al baraka) to the guests.
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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.
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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"
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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
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In the indigenous Berber religion, the holy men, called marabouts, were thought to be endowed by God with special powers.
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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
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During the rest of the film he tries to work out who could have cursed him and visits two marabouts to find a cure.
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At the mosque, the marabout and the father give the baby an Arabic name from the Koran.
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Research included socioeconomic surveys and 286 semistructured interviews on social change with different rural actors including women, youths, male household heads, marabouts, elite farmers, and grain traders.
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The other Islamic clerics who play major roles as healers and religious counselors are the marabouts.
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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
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They are called marabouts, or holy men, and are believed to have baraka, or divine grace.
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Her friends subsequently carried her body to a marabout, an intermediary between the spiritual and the physical world, who succeeded in reviving her.
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Among the Islamic Issa, Gadabursi, and Afar, sheikhs and marabouts occupy a prominent position and play a role in many lifecycle events.
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No -- probably also a marabout, a kind of juggler or sorcerer.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
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Amid these careless warders glided the puny form of a little old Turk, poorly dressed like a marabout or santon of the desert — a sort of enthusiasts, who sometimes ventured into the camp of the Crusaders, though treated always with contumely, and often with violence.
The Talisman
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Walking from Nefta to the Chott, you will reach, on the burning plain, a maraboutic shrine that might serve as an asylum for some conscience-stricken, malaria-proof penitent.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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The Maghrib, including Tunisia, has many legends involving Muslim leaders called marabouts (holy men).
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In the case of the UCM, initial opposition towards Sufism can be more accurately labeled as "anti-maraboutic" rather than anti-Sufism because the UCM collaborated with Prime Minister Mamadou Dia in an effort to usurp the powerful influence of the marabous.
Kakiblog.com
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Algeria has many legends based on the exploits of Muslim leaders called marabouts who either resisted the Crusaders or the French colonizers.
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The modern settlement has wandered away from this ancient one which now slumbers -- together, maybe, with its hoary Egyptian prototype -- under high-piled mounds whereon have arisen, since those days, a few mediæval monuments and crumbling maraboutic shrines and houses of more modern date, patched together with antique building blocks and fragments of marble cornices: an island of sand and oblivion, lapped by soft-surging palms.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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The naked vulture neck with its pouch-like appendage of brick-red hue; the silken feathers of bluish white under the tail -- those precious plumes well-known and worn by the ladies of many lands under the appellation of _marabout feathers_ -- all were recognised at a glance.
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
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We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.
Les Miserables
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Many Mauritanians have faith in the supernatural powers of holy men called marabouts, or murabitun.
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Many Guineans rely on their traditional spirit beliefs and rely on marabouts and fetishes in times of trouble.
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All faces were turned towards the sacred city, as Mussulmans turn when they kneel to pray, in mosque or in desert; and the white slabs, narrow or broad, long or short, ornamental or plain, flat or roofed with fantastic maraboutic domes, were placed very close together.
The Golden Silence
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Marabouts play a unique role in Senegalese society: in orthodox Muslim communities, marabouts are teachers of the faith.
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Here, too, lie the cemeteries: the Jewish, fronting the main road, with a decent enclosure; that of the Christians, framed in a wire fence and containing a few wooden crosses, imitation broken columns and tinsel wreaths; Arab tombs, scattered over a large undefined tract of brown earth, and clustering thickly about some white-domed maraboutic monument, whose saintly relics are desirable companionship for the humbler dead.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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But the Nubian had the advantage of a mirror from the brilliant reflection which the surface of the highly-polished shield now afforded, by means of which he beheld, to his alarm and surprise, that the marabout raised his head gently from the ground, so as to survey all around him, moving with a well-adjusted precaution which seemed entirely inconsistent with a state of ebriety.
The Talisman
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I take it, must be the culminating point, the _dernier mot_, of maraboutic enlightenment.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
