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Talibe
West African youth studying the Quran at a daara / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For similar terms, see Talib (disambiguation).
A talibé (also spelled talibe, plural talibés; Arabic: طالب, romanized: ṭālib, lit. 'seeker', 'student'; pl. طلاب ṭullāb) is a boy, usually from Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Mali or Mauritania, who studies the Quran at a daara (West African equivalent of madrasa). This education is guided by a teacher known as a marabout. In most cases talibés leave their parents to stay in the daara.[1]
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Within Senegal, the term talibé can be used in a wider context, “for instance to denote a militant adherent of a political party.”[2]