1. hakim ben allah or Ben Hashem, surnamed Mokanna (i. e. the Veiled or the One-Eyed); the founder of a religioussect in Khorassan, Persia, in the 8th century; he pretended to be God incarnate, and wore over his face a veil to shroud, as his followers believed, the dazzling radiance of his countenance, but in reality to hide the loss of an eye, incurred in earlier years when he had served as a common soldier; the sect was after fierce fighting suppressed by the Caliph, and Hakim is said to have flung himself into a vessel of powerfully corrosiveacid in the hope that, his bodybeing destroyed, a belief in his translation to heavenmightspread among his followers; the story of Hakim is told in Moore's "Lalla Rookh."
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