Definition of Ismailism

1. Noun. The branch of Shiism noted for its esoteric philosophy.

Generic synonyms: Shiism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ismailism

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Isle of Man
Isle of Sheppey
Isle of Skye
Isle of White
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wighter
Isleib
Isles of Scilly
Islets of Langerhans
Islington
Ismaeli
Ismail
Ismaili
Ismailian
Ismailism (current term)
Isobel
Isocrates
Isoetaceae
Isoetales
Isoetes
Isoko
Isolde
Isole Egadi
Isoptera
Isoptin
Isopyrum
Isopyrum biternatum
Isordil
Isoroku Yamamoto

Literary usage of Ismailism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This religion differs little from Ismailism, except that it introduces the dogma of the incarnation of God himself on earth, under the form of the Caliph ..."

2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"... contrary to Ismailism ; he made AJa-ed- din a martyr (by killing him). In the time of Ala eddin there was among the learned men of the age the shaikh ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"... or avowed professors of Ismailism, are in Guzerat and the adjoining provinces ; and their account of themselves corresponds with the above, ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... Regarding the special form of belief of the K., as far as it has been preserved to us, it seems in the beginning—before Ismailism became that mixture of ..."

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