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CADARI

Volume 6 · 58 words · 1860 Edition

or KADARI, a sect of Mahommedans, 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 Gilioni, who suffered martyrdom for his doctrine. The word comes from the Arabic *cadara*, power.