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CADARI

Volume 5 · 69 words · 1823 Edition

or KADARI, a sect of Mahometans, who assert free will; attribute the actions of men to men alone, not to any secret power determining the will; and deny all absolute decrees, and predestination. The author of this sect was Mabeb ben Kaled al Giboni, who suffered martyrdom for it. The word comes from the Arabic, "cadaro," "power." Ben Am calls the Cadarians the Magi or Manichees of the Mussulmans.