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RAWENDIS , a Persian sect that took its name from a town Rawend near Isfahan
SHIITES ). Undet the year 158 (A.D. 775) Tabari says that a man of the Rawendis, called al-Ablaq (because he was leprous), asserted that the spirit that was in Jesus was in 'Ali, then in the imams one after the other to Ibrahim ibn Mahommed, and that thus these were gods. Asad ibn 'Abdallah, then governor of Khorasan , put many of them todeath. Under the year 135 (A.D. 7523) the historian again mentions a rising of the Rawendis of Talaqan, and its suppression. Under 141 (A.D. 7589) he gives a fuller account of them. They believed in metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, and asserted that the spirit of Adam
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