Ismailitism
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Ismailitism
- (rare) Synonym of Ismailism
- 2006, Mikhail Epstein, “Russian Philosophy of National Spirit from the 1970s to the 1990s”, in Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Jürgen Hengelbrock, editors, Re-Ethnicizing the Minds?: Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought (Studies in Intercultural Philosophy; 17), Amsterdam, New York, N.Y.: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 199:
- Both Christianity and Islam are positive systems for [Lev] Gumilev, though he interprets Protestantism and Ismailitism as expressions of life denial.
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- “Ismailitism, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.