Brewer's: Zindikites

(3 syl.). An heretical Mahometan sect, who disbelieve in God, the resurrection, and a future life. They think that the world is the production of four eternal elements, and that man is a microcosm of the world.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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