Ismailian

Ismailian
Ismailian [is΄mā ē′lēənis΄mā il′ē ən]
n.
any member of a Shiite sect of Muslims holding that the office of imam should have gone to the descendant of Jafar's elder son Ismail (died A.D. 760) when Jafar, the sixth imam, died in A.D. 765: also Ismaelian [is΄mā ē′lēən]

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Is·ma·i·li·an (ĭs'mä-ēʹlē-ən) n.
Variant of Ismaili.

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