marabouts in a sentence

1. These religious teachers were known as marabouts.

2. Some marabouts and daaras participate in child trafficking.

3. These daaras are run by Islamic teachers called ‘marabouts’.

4. In the countryside, wandering marabouts, or holy people, drew a large and devoted following.

5. Referred to as talibés, these students are forced to beg on the streets to earn money for their marabouts.

6. Other marabouts create strict schedules for the children, who sometimes have to beg up to 9 hours per day.

7. "Their preachers try to persuade our youth that we marabouts have no meaning anymore, urging them to rebel."

8. Together with the marabouts (religious hermits) he lived in the village, which was formerly dedicated to religion.

9. These children, who are then called “talibés”, are entrusted to marabouts, who carry out their religious instruction.

10. In particular in the countryside, the veneration of the marabouts seems to be deeper rooted than the study of the Quran.

11. Abd Allah ibn Yasin also became known as one of the marabouts, or holy persons (from al murabitun, "those who have made a religious retreat").

12. After the adoption of Islam, a separate class of religious clerics, the Ineslemen or marabouts, also became integral to Tuareg social structure.

13. The children are used as labour in the cotton fields in the agricultural areas of southern Senegal, or to beg for marabouts in the streets of Dakar.

14. We can cross the southwest of Morocco without being challenged by the many marabouts graves, which have an undeniable importance in the social and spiritual life.

15. This abuse has been going on for the past decade, first shocking the world in 2010 following the publishing of a report by Human Rights Watch concerning the marabouts.

16. Parents who cannot afford to send their children to school often turn to these marabouts, who usually take advantage and exploit their children in appalling conditions.

17. In Algeria, the influence of the marabouts continued through much of the Ottoman period, when the authorities would grant political and financial favors to these leaders to prevent tribal uprisings.

18. The grisgris are made from a black cat, one like the one that was lying there [points to the spot]. […] The marabouts make grisgris from the skin of black cats or goats and lay the victims inside […] That’s how it is.”

19. It is based on interviews with 175 current and former talibés, as well as some 120 other people, including marabouts, families who sent their children to these schools, Islamic scholars, government officials, and humanitarian officials.