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Author | : Marshall G. S. Hodgson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
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Remains the most complete history of the Assassins. Beginning the story with the separation of Sunnis and Shi'ites and the rise of Ismâ'îlism, an offshoot of Shi'ism, Hodgson traces the long and complex history of power struggles within Islam that led ultimately to the separation of the Nizârî Ismâ'îlîs and their direct challenge to Muslim leadership.
Author | : H. Albarelli, Jr. |
Publisher | : Trine Day |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 193629656X |
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Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA’s involvement in one of the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence gathered from CIA agents who reported their involvement in the assassination, the case is broken wide open while covering unexplored ground. Gritty details about the assassination are interlaced throughout, while primary and secondary players to the murder are revealed in the in-depth analysis. Although a tremendous amount has been written in the nearly five decades since the assassination, there has never been, until now, a publication to explore the aspects of the case that seemed to defy explanation or logic.
Author | : James Wasserman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2001-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1594778736 |
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• An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. • Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. • Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to date. A thousand years ago Christian battled Muslim for possession of a strip of land upon which both their religions were founded. These Crusades changed the course of Western history, but less known is the fact that they also were the meeting ground for two legendary secret societies: The Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins. In The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, occult scholar and secret society member James Wasserman provides compelling evidence that the interaction of the Knights Templar and the Assassins in the Holy Land transformed the Templars from the Pope's private army into a true occult society, from which they would sow the seeds of the Renaissance and the Western Mystery Tradition. Both orders were destroyed as heretical some seven hundred years ago, but Templar survivors are believed to have carried the secret teachings of the East into an occult underground, from which sprang both Rosicrucianism and Masonry. Assassin survivors, known as Nizari Ismailis, flourish to this day under the spiritual leadership of the Aga Khan. Wasserman strips the myths from both groups and penetrates to the heart of their enlightened beliefs and rigorous practices, delivering the most probing picture yet of these holy warriors.
Author | : Bernard Lewis |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786724552 |
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From a master historian, the definitive account of history's first terrorists An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing Sunni order in Islam and replace it with their own. They terrorized their foes with a series of dramatic murders of Islamic leaders, as well as of some of the Crusaders, who brought their name and fame back to Europe. Professor Lewis traces the history of this radical group, studying its teachings and its influence on Muslim thought. Particularly insightful in light of the rise of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. and in Israel, this account of the Assassins -- whose name is now synonymous with politically motivated murderers -- places recent events in historical perspective and sheds new light on the fanatic mind.
Author | : Enno Franzius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Assassins (Ismailites). |
ISBN | : |
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"The term "Assassins" is employed in this book to identify those Ismailis who at the end of the eleventh century acknowledged Nizar as their Imam and who in the twelfth century accept the Aga Khan as such."--Foreword.
Author | : Joseph Hammer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781537626512 |
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Assassins ( Hashashin; from Assassiyun: "those faithful to the foundation"), is the name used to refer to the medieval Nizari Ismailis. Often characterized as a secret order led by a mysterious "Old Man of the Mountain", the Nizari Ismailis were an Islamic sect that formed in the late 11th century from a split within Ismailism, itself a branch of Shia Islam.The Nizaris posed a military threat to Sunni Seljuq authority within their territories by capturing and inhabiting many unconnected mountain fortresses throughout Persia (and later also Syria) under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah (who is typically regarded as the founder of the Assassins), therefore founding the so-called Nizari Ismaili state with Alamut Castle as its headquarters. Asymmetric warfare, psychological warfare and surgical strikes were often an employed tactic of the hashashin, who would draw their opponents into submission rather than risk killing them. In the modern era, the legend of the assassins continues to motivate insurgencies and terrorist cells throughout Western Asia, which seek to replicate the methods and tactics developed by the Assassins.While "Assassins" typically refers to the entire medieval Nizari sect, in fact only a class of acolytes known as the fida'i actually engaged in assassination work. Lacking their own army, the Nizari relied on these warriors to carry out espionage and assassinations of key enemy figures, and over the course of 300 years successfully killed two caliphs, and many viziers, sultans and Crusader leaders. Under leadership of Imam Rukn-ud-Din Khurshah, the Nizari state declined internally, and was eventually destroyed as the Imam surrendered the castles to the invading Mongols. Sources on the history and thought of the Ismailis in this period are therefore lacking and the majority extant are written by their detractors. Long after their near-eradication, mentions of Assassins were preserved within European sources such as the writings of Marco Polo, where they are depicted as trained killers, responsible for the systematic elimination of opposing figures. Ever since, the word "assassin" has been used to describe a hired or professional killer, paving the way for the related term "assassination", which denotes any action involving murder of a high-profile target for political reasons.The Nizari were feared by the Crusaders, who referred to them collectively as Assassins. The Crusader stories of the Assassins were further embellished by Marco Polo.
Author | : Elbert Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Arts and crafts movement |
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Author | : Marshall G. S. Hodgson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783111188270 |
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Author | : Christian Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2020-06-20 |
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Assassins spread terror at the rulers' courts, and with their tentacles reached the farthest ends of Europe. Accused of all assassinations, unexplained deaths, mysterious disappearances, they were terrifying by using a dagger or poison. Both Crusaders and Caliphs sought their favor, sending messages to bring together untamed murderers. Sometimes one or the other side managed to form a tactical alliance with them, but it's easy to guess how unpredictable they were allies.The Assassins were a branch of the Muslim Ismaili sect, inhabiting inaccessible mountainous Middle Eastern regions, mainly in the areas of present-day Syria and Iran in the 12th and 13th centuries. Their first leader - Sinan, called the Elder of the Mountains - introduced guiding principles of devotion and practicing terror as the guiding principles. Contrary to popular belief, it is not true that they were intoxicated with drugs - it was the childhood fanatical courage and promise of paradise that kept them extremely obedient. Eventually they were defeated by Mongol invaders who destroyed their headquarters.