Muslims at prayer in a mosque, Senegal, 18th century. The Talbes were Moorish clerics and the Marabouts were Black Muslim clerics. Temple of the Talbes or Marabouts. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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