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The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis
Farhad Daftary
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| #2627697 in Books | 1994-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.70 x.91 x6.06l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 200 pages||15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Essential Reading on the Ismailis and "Assassins"|By Mark White|There's no question that Daftary's work -- like Bernard Lewis' -- is essential reading for anyone studying the Ismailis, or the various legends surrounding the so-called hasheeshians, or assassins. I came across Daftary's work and his Institutue of Ismaili Studies in London as I was preparing the first English tr||Muslim News: "masterfully destroys [the Assassin] myth" "scholarly...easy-to-read" Journal of Semitics Studies: "Daftary's work combines factual history with the history of a fiction in a fascinating manner."
For hundreds of years Westerners have been fascinated by stories of the Assassins, their mysterious leader and their remote mountain stronghold at Alamut in Northern Iran. The legends first emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries, when Crusaders in Syria came into contact with the Nazari Isma'ilis, one of the communities of Shi'ite Islam who, at the behest of their leader Hassan Sabaa (mythologized as the ""Old Man of the Mountain""), engaged in dangerous missions to...
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