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- catalog abstract ""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 Syria came into contact with the Nazari Isma'ilis, one of the communities of Shi'ite Islam who, at the behest of their leader Hassan Sabaa (mythologized as the "Old Man of the Mountain"), engaged in dangerous missions to kill their enemies. Elaborated over the years, the tales culminated in Marco Polo's claim that the "Old Man" controlled the behaviour of his self-sacrificing devotees through the use of hashish and a secret garden of paradise. So influential were these tales that the word "assassin" entered European languages as a common noun meaning "murderer". -- Daftary traces the origins and early development of the legends - as well as investigating the historical context in which they were fabricated and transmitted. As such, this book reveals an extraordinary programme of propaganda rooted in the medieval Muslim world and medieval Europe's ignorance of this world. This book also provides the first English translation of French orientalist Silvestre de Sacy's famous 19th-century "Memoire" on the Assassins." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/94060185.html.".
- catalog contributor b5293307.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""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 Syria came into contact with the Nazari Isma'ilis, one of the communities of Shi'ite Islam who, at the behest of their leader Hassan Sabaa (mythologized as the "Old Man of the Mountain"), engaged in dangerous missions to kill their enemies. Elaborated over the years, the tales culminated in Marco Polo's claim that the "Old Man" controlled the behaviour of his self-sacrificing devotees through the use of hashish and a secret garden of paradise. So influential were these tales that the word "assassin" entered European languages as a common noun meaning "murderer". -- Daftary traces the origins and early development of the legends - as well as investigating the historical context in which they were fabricated and transmitted. As such, this book reveals an extraordinary programme of propaganda rooted in the medieval Muslim world and medieval Europe's ignorance of this world. This book also provides the first English translation of French orientalist Silvestre de Sacy's famous 19th-century "Memoire" on the Assassins." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/94060185.html.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction. 2. The Ismaʻilis in history and in mediaeval Muslim writings. 3. Mediaeval European perceptions of Islam and the Ismaʻilis. 4. Origins and early formation of the legends. -- Appendix: Silvestre de Sacy's Memoir on the 'Assassins'.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 213 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "185043705X".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Tauris,".
- catalog subject "297/.822 20".
- catalog subject "Assassins (Ismailites) Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Assassins (Ismailites) History.".
- catalog subject "BP195.A8 D34 1991".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction. 2. The Ismaʻilis in history and in mediaeval Muslim writings. 3. Mediaeval European perceptions of Islam and the Ismaʻilis. 4. Origins and early formation of the legends. -- Appendix: Silvestre de Sacy's Memoir on the 'Assassins'.".
- catalog title "The Assassin legends : myths of the Ismaʻilis / Farhad Daftary.".
- catalog type "text".