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Ismailian definition

Is·ma·il·ian (is′mā il′ē ən)

noun

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 760) when Jafar, the sixth imam, died in 765
also Ismaelian Is′·ma·e′lian (-mā ē′lē-)

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