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Gurz
(2) An iron mace pointed at one end and having a knob at the other covered with spikes, and used by the Gurz Mar, or Rufa ‘i faqirs, for striking against their devotional exercises. (Qanun-i-Islam, p. 291.) 
(1) The Persian word for the mitraqah, or iron mace, where-with the infidel dead are smitten in their graves by the angels Munkar and Nakir. [ ‘AZABU ‘L-QABR.]
citations: Dictionary of Islam, Hughes
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