A member of a religious group combining elements of the Ismaili Shi'i branch of Islam with Persian mysticism, founded by Hamdan Qarmat and centered in eastern Arabia, where they attempted to establish a utopianrepublic in 899 CE.
Origin
Arabic قَرْمَطِيّ ("one who writes in small letters") -ian.
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