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Definition of Ismailism
1. Noun. The branch of Shiism noted for its esoteric philosophy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ismailism
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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