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A Mahometan sect, which maintained that Ismaʹel, and not Moussa, ought to be Imaumʹ. In the tenth century they formed a secret society, from which sprang the Assassins.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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