![]() ![]() The state was formed in 1090 after the capture of Alamut Castle in modern Iran, which served as the Assassins' headquarters. ![]() The Assassins were founded by Hassan-i Sabbah. The first two referred to the Assassins as batiniyya, an epithet widely accepted by Isma'ilis themselves. Ĭontemporaneous historians include Arabs ibn al-Qalanisi and Ali ibn al-Athir, and the Persian Ata-Malik Juvayni. The modern term assassination is believed to stem from the tactics used by the Assassins. The Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins ( Arabic: حَشّاشِین, romanized: Ḥashshāshīyīn Persian: حشاشين, romanized: Ḥaššāšīn) were a Nizari Isma'ili order that existed between 10 CE, founded by Hasan-i Sabbah.ĭuring that time, they lived in the mountains of Persia and the Levant, and held a strict subterfuge policy throughout the Middle East through the covert murder of Muslim and Christian Crusader leaders who were considered enemies of the Isma'ili state. He narrowly survived poisoning from the blade of the Assassin. Edward I, King of England was nearly killed by an Assassin during Lord Edward's Crusade, most likely sent by the Mamluk Sultan Baibars, in order to remove his opposition to a 10-year truce with the Christian states at Jerusalem. ![]()
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