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bitants the Arabs of D^julfar. The other Arabs call 

 it Seer, from the town of the fame name, which has a 

 good harbour, and is the feat of the fcheick. He formerly 

 poflefled and (till retains the ille of Scharedsje, with fome con- 

 fiderable places upon the oppofite fide of the gulf, among 

 which are Kunlc andLundsjc. This country not long fince 

 acknowledged the fovereign authority of the Imam ; but it 

 has withdrawn itfelf from this condition of dependence ; and 

 the fcheick often goes to war with his old mafter ; but with- 

 out afliftance, he is not able to defend himfelf. He takes 

 care, however, to hve upon good terms with the other inde- 

 pendent fcheickf, efpecially with the fcheick of Dsjau, wliofe 

 dominions he weftward from Oman. Tlie prince of Seer 

 makes fome figure among the maritime powers in thefe 

 parte. His navy is one of the moll cnnfiderable in the Pcr- 

 fian gulf. His fubjefts are much employed in navigation, 

 and carry on a pretty extenfive trade. N. lat. 25'. E. 

 long. 54° 38. Niebuhr's Travels into Arabia, vol. ii. 

 Eng. ed. 



SEERD, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province of 

 Diarbekir ; ^^ miles E. of Diarbek. 



SEERKA, a town of Bengal; 25 miles E. of Pa- 

 lamow. 



SEERPOUR, a town of Bengal; 18 miles W. of 

 Moorlhedabad. — Alfo, a town of Bengal ; 25 miles N.E. 

 of Nattore. — Alfo, a town of Hindoollan, in Allahabad, 

 on the Ganges ; 40 miles E. of Gazypour.^-Alfo, a town 

 of Hindoollan, in the circar of Sumbul ; 40 miles S. of 

 Nidjibabad.— Alfo, a town of Hindoollan, in Bahar ; 15 

 miles W. of Patna. — Alfo, a town of Hindoollan, in Bahar ; 

 9 miles N. of Arrah. 



SEERSY, a town of Bengal ; 40 miles S.S.W. of 

 Burdwan. N. lat. 22° 39'. E. long 87° 35'. 



SEERWAY, a town of Hindoollan, in My fore ; 10 

 miles N. of Chinna Balabaram. 



SEES, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Alen- 

 ^on, before the i-evolution the fee of a bifhop, fufTragan 

 of Rouen ; 2^ polls N. of Alen^on. The town, lituated 

 on the Orne, contains 547 1, and the canton 10,848 inha- 

 bitants, on a territory of 210 kiliometres, in 18 communes. 

 N. lat. 48^ 36'. E. long, o'-' 15'. — Alfo, a river of France, 

 which runs into the fea near Mount St. Michel. 



SEESEEN, a town of Weftphalia, in the principdlity of 

 Wolfenbuttle ; 4 miles E. of Ganderlheim. 



SEESKAR, aimallifland in the gulf of Finland. N. 

 lat. 60° 5'. E. long. 25° 11'. 



SEESUCUNDA, a town of Africa, in Woolly. N. 

 lat. 13° 25'. W. long. 12° 54'. 



SEETACOON, a town of Hindoollan, in Bengal; 18 

 miles N. of Iflamabad. — Alfo, a town of Bengal ; 15 miles 

 N. of Curruckpour. 



SEETAPOON, a town of Bengal ; 20 miles N.N.W. 

 of Iflamabad. N. lat. 22° 37'. E. long. 91° 48'. 



SEETRUNGE, a river of Hindoollan, which rifes in 

 Guzerat, and runs into the gulf of Canibay ; 4 miles E. of 

 Sultanpour. 



SEETUL, a town of Bengal; 13 miles N. of Maul- 

 Jah. 



SEEVE, a river which runs into the Elbe, near Haar- 

 burg. 



SEEWAH. See Suva. 



SEEWALD, a town of Prufiia, in the province of 

 Oberland, near Deutfch Eylau. 



SEEWEE Bay. See Sf.wee. 



SEFAKIN, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen ; 60 miles S.E. of Loheia. 



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SEFATIANS, a feft of Mahometans, who held the 

 oppofite opinion to the Moatazahte;, with refpeft to the 

 eternal attributes of God, which they affirmud, making rzo 

 dillindtion between the cffential attributes, and thofe of 

 operation ; and hence they were named Sefatians, or Attri- 

 butifts. See Moatazalitks. 



The doftriiie of the Sefatians was that of the firft Maho- 

 metans, who were not yet acquainted with thefe nice dillinc- 

 tions ; but this fedl afterwards introduced another fpecies of 

 d'-clarativc attributes, or fuch as were nccellarily ufed in 

 liillorical narration, as hands, face, eyes, &c. which they 

 did not offer to explain, but contented themfclves with 

 faying they were in the law, and that they called them 

 " declarative attributes." At length, by introducing vari- 

 ous explications and interpretations of thefe attributes, they 

 divided into many different opinions; iome, by taking the 

 words in the literal fenfe, fell into the notion of a likenefs 

 or fimilitude between God and created beuigs, to which 

 it is faid the Karaites or Caraites among the Jews, who are 

 for the literal interpretation of Mofes's law, had (hewn 

 them the way : — others explained them in another manner, 

 faying that no creature was like God, but that they neither 

 underllood, nor thought it neccdary to explain the precife 

 lignification of the words which feem to affirm the fame of 

 both ; it being fufficicnt to believe that God hath no com- 

 panion or fimihtude. 



The fefts of the Sefatians are, i. The " Afharians," or 

 followers of Abu'l Hafan al Alhari, who allowed the attri- 

 butes of God to be diftin£l from his eflence, yet fo as to 

 forbid any comparifon to be made between God and his 

 creatures j and who, as to predeftination, manitained that 

 God hath one eternal will, and that he willeth both the good 

 and evil, the profit and hurt of men, and who have even 

 faid, that God may even command man to do what he is not 

 able to perform ; and as to mortal fin they taught, that if a 

 believer guilty of fuch fin die without repentance, iiis 

 fcntence is to be left to God, whether he pardon him out of 

 his mercy, or whether the prophet intercede for him, or 

 whether he punifh him according to his demerit, and after, 

 wards, through his mercy, admit him into paradife ; but that 

 it is not to be fuppofed he will remain for ever in hcil with the 

 infidels : — fuch were the more rational Sefatians, who were 

 very different from — 2. The " Mofhabbehites," Or " AfTi- 

 milators." (See Moshabbeiutes. ) 3. The " Kerami- 

 ans," called alfo " Mojalfemians," or " Corporealifts," 

 who declared God to be corporeal. (See Keramians. ) 

 4. The " Jabarians." (See Jabaria.vs.) 5. The " Mor- 

 gians," faid to be derived from the Jabarians, who teach, that 

 the judgment of every true believer that hath been guilty of a 

 grievous fin, will be deferred till the rcfurrcftion, and that 

 difobedience with faith is not injurious, but, on the other 

 hand, that obedience with infidelity doth not profit. The 

 Morgians are dillributed into four fpecies ; three of which, 

 according as they happen to agree in particular dogmas with 

 the " Kharejites" the " Kadarians," or the "Jabarians," 

 are diftinguilhed as Morgians of thofe fedls, and the fourth 

 is that of pure Morgians, and this fpecies is fubdivided into 

 five others. The opinions of Mokatel and Balhar, both be- 

 longing to a feft of Morgians, called " Thaubanians," are as 

 follow. The former allertcd that difobcdience hurts not him 

 who profefles the unity of God and is endowed with faith, 

 and that no true believer (hall be caft into hell ; he alfo 

 taught that God will certainly forgive all crimes befides infi- 

 delity ; and that a difobedient believer will be punilhed at 

 the refurreftion, on the bridge laid over the midft of hell, 

 v.here the flames of hell-fire fhall catch hold on him, and 

 torment him in proportion to his difobcdience, and that he 



fhall 



