The marabouts took a prominent part in the resistance offered to the French by the Algerian Moslems; and they have been similarly active in politico-religious movements in Tunisia and Tripoli.
I go to Beni-Hassan to visit Sidi El Hadj Aissa, one of the mightiest marabouts in the Sahara.
In them also were enshrined legends of the venerable marabouts who slept in the Paradise of Allah, and tales of the great warriors who had fought above the rocky precipices of Constantine and far off among the sands of the South.
As we neared the sacred precincts, the marabouts again endeavoured to make us change our religion.
The sheikh and marabouts listened with astonishment depicted on their countenances.
Affairs were taking a more favourable turn, when one of those abominable marabouts came in and reminded the people that we were Nazarenes, and haters of the Prophet, and endeavoured thus to incite their fanatical zeal against us.
Terrible was the doom preparing for us; whatever might have been the wishes of Sheikh Hamed and the black chief, the voices of the marabouts and the people prevailed.
He would be taken ill with a strange disease, of which he would die after dreadful suffering; or at best his career would be ruined; for the greatest of all marabouts was a man of immense influence.
They led sheep with golden-gleaming fleece, and at the tombs of marabouts they paused to pray, among groups of kneeling figures in long white cloaks and turbans.
And Maïeddine chose the moment when the minarets of El Aghouat rose from a sea of palms, to point out the strange, pale hills crowned by old koubbahs of marabouts and the military hospital.
Victoria did not understand his metaphor, for the deglet nour is the finest of all dates, translucent as amber, sweet as honey, and so dear that only rich men or great marabouts ever taste it.
We accordingly marched about two hours, the marabouts accompanying us, and then pitched tent for the night.
This will be an instructive lesson to the holy marabouts of Tintaghoda, who headed the tribes of the frontier against us unfortunate Christians.
Generally, the children of the marabouts are good-looking.
These marabouts pretend that when they first saw the escort of En-Noor, they thought it was an enemy come to attack us whilst isolated by the floods of rain.
The marabouts of all countries pretend to find events written plainly, or shadowed forth, in their books.
This is the only man who seems to have any authority in Seloufeeat: the marabouts could do little before he came forward; the people live in the wildest state of lawless independence.
The marabouts indulge the vain hope that, through the influence of the great En-Noor of Tintalous, we may yet become Muslims.
The hostile Sheikhs told our marabouts that they did not come to harm us, but to oblige us to become Muslims, for no infidel had ever, or ever should, pass through their country.
Half the marabouts in North Africa are proclaiming a jihad in support of the Pan-Islam program of the Arab Union.
Another Arab also said, on leaving one of my performances: "Our Marabouts must now do very great miracles to astonish us.
One of the means employed by the Marabouts to gain influence in the eyes of the Arabs is by causing a belief in their invulnerability.
It is, nevertheless, a pleasing trait in the character of the Souafah, that they have permitted some thirty families of Jews to settle amongst them, a concession not yet made by the Marabouts of Ghadames.
Marabouts in The Mountains are mostly camel-drivers; and the greater part of priests, marabouts, and kadys perform sacred duties gratis.
Such are the tales of Marabouts of The Sahara, quite a match for the legends of our Monks of the good and happy olden times.
I told his Excellency, Christian Marabouts must read and study the sacred books of all religions, and Christian talebs frequently read the Koran to acquire a knowledge of classic Arabic.
To pacify him, I told him Christian priests were many of them as bad as Marabouts (and which is quite within the mark).
Our Marabouts are all rogues, and are always exciting the people against us and our authority (as Sultan).
The small fry flopped and scolded, and rose and fell in a dense mass; the marabouts walked with dignified pace to and fro through the grass all about.
All sizes were there from the little carrion crows to the great dignified vultures and marabouts and eagles.
At last the tolbas and the marabouts exclaim: "Come, women.
The marabouts accept these conditions, and guarantee their fulfilment.
The vow made to the marabouts who were invoked is scrupulously fulfilled.
It is barely installed, when the marabouts and chiefs of the opposite party arrive with the ratification that was stipulated.
Are they not covered with veils Which trailing far behind them fill even the marabouts with despair!
As soon as the child is old enough, he learns to read and write, which is an innovation among the djouad, for until recently the marabouts alone cultivated letters.
Peace, however, would certainly not have been concluded if the marabouts who came to intercede for it had not presented themselves under cover of the night.
We may mention, however, that in certain zaouïas lions are tamed by marabouts and led up and down the tribes.
Si-ben-Zyan belongs to a family of marabouts of the Oulad-Salahh, a section of the great tribe of the Arbâa.
The marabouts are afterwards visited by the chiefs of both sides who present to them offerings called zyara, literally a visit.
The djouad reproach the marabouts with the offences which in all countries are eagerly attributed to religious orders that aim at the direction of human affairs.
The marabouts are most numerous in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, though their vocation properly belongs to the entire Mussulman religion.
Come, I know how it was; you complimented Madame de Vandenesse at the ball on her marabouts and she has put them on again for your sake.
One of the defeated Marabouts actually put his finger on the blood and tasted it; then he collapsed.
The pink ribbons and marabouts fluttered joyously in the air.
Yakoub and Eyoub with flashing sabres were actually flying at each other, but Marabouts were seizing them and holding them back, and the Sunakite's chant arose above all the uproar.
His women shut themselves into some innermost recesses, and the field was left to the Marabouts and the prisoners, who, not understanding what all this meant, were still kneeling in their corner.
The Marabouts had, at their chief's signal, ranged themselves in front of the inner court, and the authority of the Hadji had imposed silence even on the fanatic.
The fact is, when we came the marabouts did not know what course to take, whether to attack us or to receive us; so they chose the former, in their blinded judgment, and brought all this evil upon their heads.
He says of the late razzia at Tintaghoda, that the marabouts of that town brought it all upon themselves, being the first to begin to countenance attacks upon caravans (that is, ours).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marabouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
