The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic World Immortals of New Orleans ISBN10: 193438917X

ISBN10: 193438917X

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The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic World Immortals of New Orleans ISBN10: 193438917XThe sect known as the Assassins, a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the Man in the Mountain encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of Christians that ended more than a century of Assassin rule; it was the massive and brutal invasion of Mongols from the East who conquered Assassin strong points and mountain fortifications one by one, crushing