maraboutismn.

1900 Sci. Rev. Oct. 373 A special section of this article is devoted to the role of women in connection with maraboutism.

1949 H. A. R. Gibb Mohammedanism ix. 158 The persistence of the old beliefs and practices has given a characteristic feature to Berber Islam, the prevalence of ‘Maraboutism’ or the cult of living ‘holy men’, possessing magical powers (baraka).

1968 C. Geertz Islam Observed ii. 30 The Maraboutic Crisis..came..more or less to an end. This is not to say that maraboutism did, for saint worship is an historical constant in Morocco.

1989 C. Glasse Conc. Encycl. Islam 258/2 In French the word maraboutism was invented to describe this veneration of saints.

2011 J. Fouli tr. H. Djait Islamic Culture in Crisis xiv. 177 Maraboutism is an offshoot of mysticism. But this is not an intellectual, esoteric, or affective mysticism; it is a pugnacious movement founded on the charisma of an individual.