marabout

Up to the now open door of the marabout's tomb rushes a figure that has leaped from a horse.

There is a peculiar kind of silk called marabout, containing generally three threads, made from the white Novi raw silk.

A marabout is generally in charge of these koubas, as he is with the proper tombs of other holy men.

The mosque-marabout is often a monument which marks a holy place, the tomb, for instance, of a celebrated marabout or holy man.

It is dedicated to Sidi-Ahmed-ben-Youssef, a venerated marabout who lived all his life hereabouts.