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The Assassins

A Radical Sect in Islam

by Bernard Lewis

A short, widely read history of the Nizari Ismailis in Persia and Syria from Hasan-i Sabbah to the Mongol and Mamluk conquests. Lewis discusses the origins of the name 'assassin' and the legends that grew up around the sect in Europe.

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