Marabouts

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.

West African political leader, Islamic scholar, and Toucouleur military commander

Senegalese Sufi leader

Senegalese sufi saint (1900-1975)

19th-century Malian religious leader

Malian warrior and scholar

Fula religious leader

eighteen century Islamic scholar