| 31. | In turn, marabouts work with their followers, often arranging marriages or resolving disputes.
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| 32. | Traditionally, parents often sent their children to live with their marabout and become taalibes.
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| 33. | These associations revitalize the connection between marabout and follower, even when separated by distance.
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| 34. | Their leaders were often marabouts or shaykhs.
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| 35. | The jihads led by the Muslim marabouts such Maba Diakhou B?were encroaching on Sine.
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| 36. | Marabouts of the rural faithful were mollified.
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| 37. | Under the influence of Islam, these kingdoms were transformed and marabouts played an increasing role.
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| 38. | There is a descending hierarchy of lower-rank marabouts, each with a regional following.
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| 39. | The marabouts of the Mouride Brotherhood devote less time to study and teaching than other brotherhoods.
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| 40. | This charismatic relationship is reinforced and complemented by a parallel clientelistic relationship between marabout and follower.
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