Daftary, Farhad .

The Assassin legends : myths of the IsmaŹ»ilis / Farhad Daftary. - London ;; New York : ;Tauris ; Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1995 - viii, 213 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Syri

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Assassins (Ismailites) -- Historiography.;Mythos.

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