A
talibé (also called
talibe, plural
talibés, Arabic, طالب ṭālib, "
student", lit. "
seeker"; pl. طلاب
ṭullāb) is a boy, usually from
Senegal,
the Gambia,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
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.