E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Ismael’ians (4 syl.).
A Mahometan sect, which maintained that Isma’el, and not Moussa, ought to be Imaum’. In the tenth century they formed a secret society, from which sprang the Assassins.
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