Kadizadeli

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The Kadizadelis were a 17th-century Islamic reformist movement in the Ottoman Empire. They were a kind of stoic Mohammedans, who avoided all feasting and diversion, and placed an uncommon importance in everything they said or did. Those of them who inhabited the frontiers in and around Hungary agreed in many ways with the beliefs of Christianity, and drank wine, even during the fast of Ramadan. They read the Slavonic translation of the Bible, as well as the Qur'an. Muhammad, according to them, is the Holy Spirit who descended on the Apostles on the day of the Pentecost.

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.