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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the last of the four orthodox sects of the Sunnite Mohammedans, founded by the imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal of Bagdad (
a. d. 780-855). The Hanbalites were fanatical, and are supposed to be now chiefly represented by the Wahhabees of Arabia.
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