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What is a fakir?

What is a fakir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
  2. (Hindu, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
  3. (derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
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Sometimes fakir, sometimes farceur, he dominates the scenes in which he appears.
Commonly, people pursue alternative treatments simultaneously, visiting a fakir for an amulet, an imam for blessed oil, and a physician for medicine.
The man returned to the fakir, and complained that the rupee was a false one.
There were dancers that shimmered in costumes of gold, a fakir, and a belly dancer.
If you think, and think rightly, the fakir does not get you.
This is not the joy of the fanatic or of the fakir or of the rhapsodist.

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