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The Assassin Legends

Myths of the Isma'ilis

by Farhad Daftary

An examination of how the legends of hashish, the garden of paradise and the self-sacrificing killers arose among the Nizari Ismailis' Muslim enemies and Crusader observers. Daftary traces their development through Marco Polo and nineteenth-century orientalists and includes a translation of Silvestre de Sacy's memoir on the name 'assassin'.

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