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Hasan al-Sabbah [a] also known as Hasan I of Alamut, was a religious and military leader. He was the founder of the Nizari Ismai'li sect widely known as the Hashshashin or the Order of Assassins , as well as the Nizari Ismaili state , ruling from 1090 to 1124 AD.
The novel and its plot were the inspiration for the popular Assassin's Creed series of video games. [3] Many elements of the book's plot can be found in the first game, and the phrase from the novel under an alternative translation: "nothing is true; everything is permitted" is the guiding principle of the game's Assassin Brotherhood—who are the descendants of the Ismaili Hashashin.
Hassan-i Sabbah was born in Qom, ca. 1050, and did his religious studies in Cairo with the Fatimids. Sabbah's father was a Qahtanite Arab, said to be a descendant of Himyaritic kings, [10] having emigrated to Qom from Kufa. He made his way to Persia where, through subterfuge, he and his followers captured Alamut Castle in 1090.
Under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah and the succeeding lords of Alamut, the strategy of covert capture was successfully replicated at strategic fortresses across Persia, Syria, and the Fertile Crescent. The Nizari Ismaili created a state of unconnected fortresses, surrounded by huge swathes of hostile territory, and managed a unified power ...
The Lord of Alamut (Hassan Sabbah) (Persian: حسن صباح خداوند الموت Khudāvand‑i Almūt: Ḥasan Ṣabbāḥ) is a 1964 Persian-language historical fiction book by Zabihullah Mansouri under the name of Pol Amir, about the order of Hasan-i Sabbah set in Alamut, and Iran. The book covers the assassination of Nizam al-Mulk. [1]
The Ismailis in Persia, including Da'i Hassan-i Sabbah, were aware of the declining power of the Fatimids during the final decades of the imamate of al-Mustansir. [2] Hassan was a new Ismaili convert who had been appointed to a post in the da'wah organization by Ibn Attash in May–June 1072. Within nine years of his missionary activity in ...
Very early in the empire's life, the Fatimids sought to spread the Isma'ili faith, which in turn would spread loyalty to the Imamate in Egypt. One of their earliest attempts was taken by a missionary by the name of Hassan-i Sabbah. [citation needed] Hassan-i Sabbah was born into a Twelver family living in the scholarly Persian city of Qom in ...
It recounts the creation of his Rubaiyat throughout the history of the Seljuk Empire, his interactions with historical figures such as Vizir Nizam al-Mulk and Hassan al-Sabbah of the Order of the Assassins, and his love affair with a female poet of the Samarkand court.