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The Cult Dossier · No. 017 · Political / Terror
Order of Assassins
Hashshashin; Nizari Ismailis of Alamut
1090 – 1256/1273 · Persia (Alamut, Daylam) and Syria (Masyaf)
II. MEDIEVAL — HERESY, DUALISM AND THE MILLENNIUM
Fully religious — a branch of Shia Islam, now mainstream and peaceful
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1090 Hasan-i Sabbah takes the fortress of Alamut by infiltration.
- 14 October 1092 Assassination of Nizam al-Mulk — the first and most famous killing.
- 1094 The Nizari–Musta'li schism in Cairo.
- 1162–1164 Hasan II declares the Qiyamah at Alamut, 8 August 1164.
- 28 April 1192 Conrad of Montferrat murdered at Tyre.
- 15 December 1256 Hulagu Khan takes Alamut; the great library is destroyed. Rukn al-Din Khurshah surrenders and is later killed.
- 1273 Baibars ends Syrian Nizari independence at Masyaf.
### Its people
### Hasan-i Sabbah
the Old Man of the Mountain; Sayyidna
Founder, the Nizari Ismaili state at Alamut · c.1050 – 1124 · active 1090–1124
Before the law. None — sovereign in his own territory.
Where things stand. Deceased 1124. His community survives today as the Nizari Ismailis under the Aga Khan, numbering in the millions.
- 1090 Takes Alamut by infiltration.
- 14 October 1092 Assassination of the Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk.
- 1094 The Nizari–Musta'li schism.
- 1124 Dies at Alamut.
- 1256 Hulagu Khan destroys Alamut and its library.
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### Rashid ad-Din Sinan
the Old Man of the Mountain (Syrian)
Syrian chief of the Nizari Ismailis · c.1132 – 1193 · active 1162–1193
Before the law. None — sovereign in his own territory.
Where things stand. Deceased 1193.
- 1162 Sent from Alamut to take charge in Syria.
- 1176 Saladin besieges Masyaf and abruptly withdraws.
- 28 April 1192 Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, murdered at Tyre — the killing that fixed the Assassin legend in Europe.
- 1193 Dies at Masyaf.
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