The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative 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...
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No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority, or intelligence, or literary charm than Professor Bernard Lewis.--Sunday Times (London)
AcknowledgementsPreface to the 2003 Edition1The Discovery of the Assassins12The Ismailis203The New Preaching384The Mission in Persia645The Old Man of the Mountain976Means and Ends125Notes141Index161
