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Barṣīṣā

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Barsisa, ("the man of priestly regalia", from Aramaic bar, "son", and ṣīṣa, "gold plate", referring specifically to the high priest's breastplate) in Islamic theology, was an ascetic who succumbed to the Devil's temptations and denied God.