maraboutic

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 Norman Douglas 1910

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 Norman Douglas 1910

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 Norman Douglas 1910

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 Norman Douglas 1910

I take it, must be the culminating point, the _dernier mot_, of maraboutic enlightenment.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

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 1901

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.

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