Brewer's: Ismaelians

(4 syl.). A Mahometan sect, which maintained that Ismael, and not Moussa, ought to be Imaum'. In the tenth century they formed a secret society, from which sprang the Assassins.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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