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The Assassins: A Redical Sect in Islam

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by Bernard Lewis


  death of

  al-Mustarshid, Abbasid Caliph, murder of

  Najm al-Dln

  al-Nasawī, Shihāb al-Dīn Muammad

  al-Nāir, Abbasid Caliph

  Nair al-Dīn ūsi

  Nāir-i Khusraw

  Nar, successor of Sinān

  ‘New preaching' the

  Nīshāpūr

  Niām al-Mulk

  assassination of

  Nizār, son of al-Mustanir

  Nizārīs, the

  activity of in Egypt

  North Africa

  Nubuwiyya order

  Nūr al-Dīn ibn Zangi

  Nuayrīs, the

  Odoric of Pordenone

  Old Man of the Mountain

  ‘Old preaching' the

  Omar Khayyam

  Orkhān

  Pamir

  Philip VI, king of France

  Philip of Montfort

  Pīr

  Polovtsev A.

  Provençal poetry, the Assassins in

  Qadmūs

  Qā'im the

  Qā’in

  Qazvīn

  qilā' al-da'wa,

  Qiyāma

  (see also the Resurrection)

  Quhistān

  Qumm

  Rafīq, term introduced

  al-Rāshid, Abbasid Caliph, murder of

  Rashīd al-Dīn

  Rāshid al-Dīn, see Sinan

  Raymond of Antioch, no

  Raymond II of Tripoli, first Frankish victim of the Assassins

  Rayy

  Resurrection, the

  proclaimed by asan

  abolished

  Richard Coeur de Lion

  Rousseau, French consul in Aleppo

  Rūdbār

  Rukn al-Dīn Khūrshāh, son of ‘Alī al-Dīn

  murder of

  St. Louis

  Saladin

  Assassin attempts on the life of

  besieges Mayāf

  Salamiyya

  Sanjar

  sends expedition against the Ismailis

  offensive against the Ismailis

  Saoshyans

  ārim al-Dīn

  Sarmīn

  Sāva

  Seljuqs, the

  expeditions against the Ismailis

  disintegration of

  in Syria

  Semyonov, A.A.

  Shāhdiz

  Shāh Khalīlullāh

  Shams al-Din

  Sharaf al-Mulk, vizier of the Khorazmshāh

  Shaykhy

  Shayzar

  Sheil, Lt. Col. (Sir) Justin

  Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-‘Ajamī, murder of

  Shīrgīr, Nushtegin

  Shī'a, the

  origin of

  development of the sect of

  Shī'atu ‘Alī' see Shī'a

  Shughnān

  Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.

  Sinān ibn Salmān ibn Muhammad, called Rāshid al-Dīn, Assassin leader in Syria

  consolidation in Syria

  general policy of

  death of

  Sīstān

  Stranglers

  Sunnī Islam

  abas

  Tabrīz

  āhir, first Ismaili executed

  Ta'līm

  Tāj al-Dīn

  Takrīt

  ālaqān

  Tancred, prince of Antioch

  Taqiyya

  Tarz

  ayyib, son of al-Āmir

  Ta'wīl al-Bāin, see Bāini

  Tekish, Khorazmshāh

  Templars, the, see Knights Templar Tiflis

  Tortosa

  Tribute

  Tripoli

  Tughtigin, Turkish ruler of Damascus

  Tūn

  uraythīth

  Turks

  Tutush, brother of the Great Sultan Malikshāh

  Twelver Shī‘a, the origin of

  Tyrannicide

  Tyre

  ‘Ubayd Allah al-Khaīb

  ‘Ulayqa

  ‘Umar, the second Caliph

  ‘Umar-i Khayyām, see Omar Khayyam

  Umayyad Caliphate

  Ustavand

  ‘Uthmān, the third Caliph

  Villani, Giovanni

  William, Archbishop of Tyre

  William of Rubruck

  Yarankush

  Yasa’ur Noyan

  Yazd

  Yemen

  Yves, the Breton

  Yūsuf ibn Fīrūz

  Zarubin

  Zangids, the

  Zangī, ruler of Mosul

  Zūzan

  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Illustrations

  Acknowledgements

  Preface to the Paperback Edition

  1: The Discovery of the Assassins

  2: The Ismailis

  3: The New Preaching

  4: The Mission in Persia

  5: The Old Man of the Mountain

  6: Means and Ends

  Notes

  Abbreviations

  Transcription

  Chapter l

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapters 5

  Chapter 6

  Index

 

 

 


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