Mahmet Ismailian

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Mehmet the Ishmaelite was a Pahlavi Yazdanized Proto-Karaite warlord who the Bakr Taji of Tachkastan. His name is Persian meaning Dead Moon because of the Blood-Moon which occurred around the time of his birth[1]. Because his paternal Grandfather was Jewish, Mehmet was considered Zera Israel (Bani Israel in Arabic). He might have been identical with Iyas ibn Qabisa. He practiced Gnosticism and was married by Warakah to Khadijah before Warakah became a Nasrani. In later life people said that he had become a Noahite.

He became the chief Muhammad and was promoted by his followers as "MḤMT' PTGMBI Y YZDT" and by many Gnostic Christians as the return of the Gnostic Christian Muhammad. They were opposed in the Quraysh Quran which said no one is Muhammad or Jesus but the Eucharist.

Thomas the Presbyter and Sebeos and Numismatic evidence prove the existence of this Yazdanist.