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Marabouts

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Marabouts (mâr`əbts) [Arab.,=devotee hermit], members of a Muslim religious and military community, precursors of the Almoravids Almoravids (ălmôr`əvĭdz), Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Muslim Spain in the 11th and 12th cent.
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. They spread from NW Africa into Spain in the 11th and 12th cent. The Marabouts later became known as holy men and were greatly venerated as saints. They now live in monasteries or are attached to mosques. Their tombs, also called Marabouts, are often places of pilgrimage.


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Dispatched to the streets by religious leaders, called marabouts, their daily collection quota ranged from fifty cents to $1.
They are usually filled with papers bearing Koranic inscriptions and texts, or magical letters and numbers prepared by marabouts as protection for the wearer.
The marabouts organize economic activities and wield considerable influence in Senegalese social, religious and economic life.
 
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