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Qarmatian
Qarmatian [ kaar máyti ən ] (plural Qarmatians) or Karmathian [ kaar máythi ən ] (plural Karmathians)


noun 
Definition:
 
member of medieval Muslim group: a member of an Islamic religious group of the 9th to 11th centuries, who at one time controlled all of the Arabian peninsula
[Early 19th century. < Hamdan Qarmat, Iraqi peasant who founded the group]
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