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- noun Plural form of
Carmathian .
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Examples
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And although our poet, quoting the Carmathians, here deprecates the common worship, he remarks in one of his letters that he would have gone to mosque on Fridays if he had not fallen victim to an unmentionable complaint ....
The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala 973-1057 Abu al-Ala al-Maarri 1917
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In 891 the sect of the Karamita (Carmathians) under Abu-Said al-jannabi arose in the neighbourhood of Kufa.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Then came the fanatical innovation of the Carmathians, who pretended to a divine mission to complete the religion of Mahomet, as
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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Twenty years previously, when the same orthodox invader routed the schismatic Carmathians at Moultan, the fugitive chief of the Sheahs found an asylum in Ceylon.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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The sect of the Carmathians may be considered as the second visible cause of the decline and fall of the empire of the caliphs.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Carmathians was sanctified by their aversion to the worship of Mecca: they robbed a caravan of pilgrims, and twenty thousand devout Moslems were abandoned on the burning sands to a death of hunger and thirst.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The rapine of the Carmathians was sanctified by their aversion to the worship of Mecca: they robbed a caravan of pilgrims, and twenty thousand devout Moslems were abandoned on the burning sands to a death of hunger and thirst.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Carmathians were ripe for rebellion, since they disclaimed the title of the house of Abbas, and abhorred the worldly pomp of the caliphs of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Carmathians were ripe for rebellion, since they disclaimed the title of the house of Abbas, and abhorred the worldly pomp of the caliphs of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The sect of the Carmathians may be considered as the second visible cause of the decline and fall of the empire of the caliphs.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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