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Azre-Kah

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is the name of a sect which arose in the East headed by Nafe ben-Azrach. They refused to acknowledge any superior power on earth, whether temporal or spiritual. They became a powerful body under the reign of the caliphs, declared themselves the sworn enemies of the Ommiades, but were at length overpowered and dispersed.