The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis by Farhad Daftary

The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis

Farhad Daftary

200 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
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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...

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