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‖ Fedai|ˈfɛdɑːiː|
Pl. fedai, fedais. The Pers. forms also occur.
[Pers. fidā'ī (pl. fidā'iyān) devotee, zealot, one who risks his life in a cause.]
= assassin 1.
1875Encycl. Brit. II. 723/1 When the sheikh required the services of any of them, the selected fedais were intoxicated with hashish. 1909Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 2/1 Thousands of them became ‘fedai’, men ready to sacrifice themselves for the common good. 1921Glasgow Herald 13 Sept. 7 Seventeen Fedai, otherwise reckless desperadoes, are stated to have been specially brought to Constantinople for the purpose of committing murders. 1958J. A. Boyle tr. Juvaini's Hist. World-Conqueror II. 739 Fidā'ī, the term applied to the emissaries of the Isma'ilis, the Assassins. 1969A. J. Arberry Relig. Middle East II. 626 Manfred Halpern speaks of the Muslim Brethren in Egypt, Syria and elsewhere, together with movements like Fidā'iyān-i-Islām in Persia. |