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Rashid ad-Din Sinan was born between the years 1131 and 1135 in Basra, southern Iraq, to a prosperous family. [5] According to his autobiography, of which only fragments survive, Rashid came to Alamut , the fortress headquarters of the Assassins , as a youth after an argument with his brothers, [ 5 ] and received the typical Assassin training.
The full collection, known as the Majmu'ah, contains Bal'ami's version of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari's chronicle, the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, and Nizam al-Din Shami's biography of Timur. These portions of the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh cover most of the history of Muhammad and the Caliphate, plus the post-caliphate dynasties of the Ghaznavids ...
David of Dinant (c. 1160 – c. 1217) was a pantheistic philosopher. He may have been a member of, or at least been influenced by, a pantheistic sect known as the Amalricians . David was condemned by the Catholic Church in 1210 for his writing of the " Quaternuli " (Little Notebooks), which forced him to flee Paris .
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, 12th century Syrian religious figure and leader of resistance to the Crusades Rashid al-Din Vatvat , 12th century Persian royal panegyrist and epistolographer Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat , 13th century Persian physician
He was commissioned by Ghazan to write the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh, now considered the most important single source for the history of the Ilkhanate period and the Mongol Empire. [2] He retained his position as a vizier until 1316. After being charged with poisoning the Ilkhanid king Öljaitü, he was executed in 1318. [2]
ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2. Hodgson, Marshall, The Order of Assassins. The Struggle of the Early Nizārī Ismā'īlī Against the Islamic World. The Hague: Mouton, 1955. Hodgson, Marshall, "The Ismā'īlī State." In The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, ed. J.A. Boyle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968 ...
9 A different kind of snow The Deceived Wisdom: No two snowflakes are alike G enerations of primary school children have attempted to simulate nature in their classrooms in the run up to
It was founded in late 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books. [2] The Baen Free Library represents an experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright. It appears that ...