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Marabout, originally, in North Africa, member of a Muslim religious community living in a ribāṭ, a fortified monastery, serving both religious and military functions. Men who possessed certain religious qualifications, such as the reciters of the Qurʾān (qurrāʾ), transmitters of Hadith.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Kaaba or Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, is the most sacred holy place of Islam and a Qibla of the Muslims, contains al-Bayt ul-Ma'mur spiritually above the Kaaba, contains the Maqam Ibrahim, Hateem, and the Al-Hajar-ul-Aswad which belonged in Jannah to Adam and Eve (Adam and Hawa).
Chapter 6: The Muslim holy man was published in Before Sufism on page 108.
- Christopher Melchert
Fakirs are generally regarded as holy men who possess supernatural or miraculous powers. Among Muslims, the leading Sufi orders of fakirs are the Shadhiliyyah, Chishtiyah, Qadiriyah, Naqshbandiyah, and Suhrawardiyah. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines the term fakir as "a member of an Islamic religious group, or a holy man".
Jun 2, 2024 · marabout (plural marabouts) ( Islam) A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa. [from 17th c.] The tomb or shrine of such a person. [from 19th c.]
Gérôme painted this scene, which depicts the interior of the seventh-century mosque of ‘Amr in Cairo, after his visit to Egypt in 1868. The rows of worshipers, ranging from the dignitary and his attendants to the loincloth-clad Muslim holy man, face Mecca during one of the five daily prayers.
