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Qabalah
qadi
Qarmatian
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Qattara Depression
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Qarmatian

Qar·ma·ti·an [ kaar máytee ən ] (plural Qar·ma·ti·ans) or Kar·ma·thi·an [ kaar máythee ən ] (plural Kar·ma·thi·ans)


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, Iraq peasant who founded the group]
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