See Also: Ismaili(dictionary)

Ismaili (iou)



Ismaili noun & adjective. Also Ismaeli. M19.
[from Arab. Ismail (see below) + -I2.]
(A person) belonging to the branch of Shiite Islam which holds that at the death in 765 of the sixth Shiite imam the imamate ought to have descended to the posterity of his deceased eldest son Ismail.
Ismailian noun & adjective M19.