The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic World by Marshall G.S. Hodgson

The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic World

Marshall G.S. Hodgson

352 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history religion emotional reflective medium-paced
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The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of...

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