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Karigites

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Karigites

or SEPARATISTS, is the name of a Mohammedan sect who oppose all government, both ecclesiastical and spiritual. They hold that the person who is to preside in spiritual affairs should be a man of supernatural birth and altogether of a spiritual character. (See MOHAMMEDANS); comp. (See KARMATHIANS).