Marabout (Islam)

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A marabout (rear RTL مَربوط or rear RTL مُرابِط, that which is attached) is a man Ascète (seldom a woman), generally claiming Islam or of Moslem syncretism. Regarded as a Holy man and wise, the rabet is the subject to marabout-me of a popular worship in North Africa and other forms in all the Africa.

By these facts, they are regarded by certain scientists sunnites as Mécréant S.

The Saint-Owner gives sometimes his name to a locality, a village, a city. He offers protection and blessing to him.

The term indicates also the tomb with Coupole (rear RTL قُبّة) of the person venerated (holy).

It is in a Zaouïa, the place of worship where meet thousands of faithful each year.

Functions of the marabout

In sub-Saharan Africa, the marabouts are characters to whom one lends multiple capacities, kinds of Shaman S. They restore health or the social order using Talisman S. These magic practices are criticized by the orthodoxe Moslems, but never ceased existing so far. The marabouts, of their alive, are also regarded as wise, because having studied during their retirement the various aspects of the Islamic religion. They often act like council of the villagers. Their life with the variation of the remainder of the people gives them the retreat necessary as well as the detachment which enables them to obtain a great moral authority.

They do not ask in general wages for their actions, but the tacit moral obligation is to provide for their needs, which, insofar as they are ascetics, are reduced to food and drink, like with clothing. They avoid asking wages because thus Mahomet, prophet of Islam and model of life for the Moslems sunnites, described the person who seeks to meet God: the prophets, as those which want to take as a starting point their lives, are not interested in the things of this world but attach an particular importance to the research of the truth on beyond.

In the brotherhoods of Senegal, the marabouts are organized in elaborate hierarchies. The highest marabout of the Confrérie of Mourides is thus raised with the row of Caliph and has wide capacity but also enjoys a prestige of saint living and a not very orthodoxe veneration in Islam.

In the Maghreb, the marabouts are generally Moslem. They base their techniques on a esoteric reading of the Coran. The attention is related to a system of numerology rather similar to the system of the cabal, the reading of some verses, with the blessings (Fatiha). One can find rites animists even there.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the use of the term was extended to the traditional priests, hunters or concerning wizard rites traditional animists, Vaudou S or Yoruba for example, working to cure their patients of an evil, or to help with any other social action. Although abusive because referring to practices without relationship with Islam, this use nevertheless became current.

Some places of worships and marabouts

    • Sidi Me hamed Bou Qobrine Fondateur of the Rahmaniya (Algiers and Bounouh)
    • Sidi Abderrahmane Thaalibi Fondateur of the Thaalibiya (Algiers)
    • Sidi Me hend oumalek (Tifrit is born oumalek)
    • Sidi Moh' Ali oulhadj is born oumeziane (Tifrit Does not have el Hadj)
    • Sidi Harrat Benaissa El Idrissi (Zemmora, Relizane)
    • Sidi Abd-Allah Ben Mançour
    • Sidi Abid Echerrif (Guentis)
    • Sidi Abou Abdallah Ech Choudi El Halloui
    • Sidi A' hmed el Mejdoub
    • Sidi Bel Abbès
    • Sidi Ben-Ali (Ain el Hout - Tlemcen)
    • Sidi Ben-Ali (Nédromah)
    • Sidi Ben-Azzouz (Borj Ben Azzouz)
    • Sidi Bicinti el basco
    • Sidi Bou Adjami
    • Sidi Boudarga
    • Sidi Boudjemaa
    • Sidi Brahim
    • Sidi Daoudi
    • Sioud anta' El-Eubbad be-Saffi
    • Sidi In-Naceur
    • Sidi And Toumi
    • Sidi Hamadouche
    • If ibn 'Ali Sharîf (Akbou)
    • Sidi Mohammed Ben Omar El Houari
    • Sidi Mohammed bou Semah' has,
    • Sidi Moh' amed Ou' L Il' afian.
    • Sidi Moulebhar
    • Sidi Qadir
    • Beautiful-Ezrag Sidi
    • Sidi Serhane
    • Sidi Soumeymane Ben Abdallah
    • Zaouia de Sidi Benamar (Fillaoussenne)
    • Sidi-Wahhab
    • Sidi Yakkout
  • Morocco
    • Zaouïa Naciria
    • Zaouïa Cherqaouia
    • Zaouia Aïssaouia
    • Zaouia Hamdouchia

  • Tunisia

    • Zaouïa de Sidi Ben Azzouz. Nefta
    • Zaouïa de Sidi Bouteffaha. Béja
    • Zaouïa de Sidi Salah Zlaoui. Béja
    • Zaouïa de Sidi Abdelkader. Béja
    • Zaouïa de Sidi Bou Arba. Béja
    • Zaouïa de Sidi Taieb. Béja
    • Zaouïa de Sidi Baba Ali Smadhi. Béja
    • Zaouïa of Sidi Ali El Mekki

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