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marabout
In the Muslim world, the marabout () is a descendant of Muhammad (Arabic: سـيّد, romanized: sayyid and sidi in the Maghreb) and a Muslim religious leader and teacher who historically had the function of a chaplain serving as a part of an Islamic army, notably in North Africa and the Sahara region, in West Africa, and historically in the Maghreb.
ʿUmar Tal
West African political leader, Islamic scholar, and Toucouleur military commander
Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba
Senegalese Sufi leader
Ibrahim Niass
Senegalese sufi saint (1900-1975)
Mamadou Lamine Dramé
19th-century Malian religious leader
Sulayman Bal
Malian warrior and scholar
Karamokho Alfa
Fula religious leader
Abdul Kader
eighteen century Islamic scholar