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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.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, an alchemist and schoolmaster, was dispatched to Syria by Hassan II as a messenger of his Islamic views and to continue the Assassins' mission. Known as the greatest of the Assassin chiefs, Sinān first made headquarters at al-Kahf Castle and then the fortress of Masyaf.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan: from 1163–1164 to 1192–1193 [8] Nizari: Syria: Al-Kahf Castle: Chief Da'i: Abu Mansur ibn Muhammad or Nasr al-'Ajami: since 1192 or 1193 ...
It became famous as the stronghold from which Rashid ad-Din Sinan, known as the Old Man of the Mountain, ruled [2] from 1166-1193. [citation needed] He was a leader of the Syrian branch of the Shia Nizari Isma'ili sect, also known as the Assassins, and a figure in the history of the Crusades. [3]
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, the Arab leader of the Isma'ili sect in Syria, used this castle initially as his base and hermitage. [4] Sinan eventually died and was buried there in 1193. [4] In 1197 the Regent of Jerusalem, Henry II, Count of Champagne, visited the castle to secure an alliance with Sinan's successor.
Muhammad al-Muhtadi (Rashid ad-Din Sinan) Ibn Ali al-Hadi . 1136–1158 1136–1193 22: Hasan al-Qahir ibn Muhammad al-Muhtadi ("hidden") 1158–1162 23: Hasan Ala Zikrihis-Salam ibn Hasan al-Qahir: 1162–1166 24: Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn Hasan Ala Zikrihis-Salam: 1166–1210 22: 25: Jalal al-Din Hasan ibn Nur al-Din Muhammad: 1210–1221 1193 ...
Fortunately, descriptions of this event are also preserved in Rashid al-Din’s narrative and recounted in the Haft Bab Baba-yi Sayyidna, written 60 years after the event, and the later Haft Bab-i Abi Ishaq, an Ismaili book of the 15th century AD. However, Rashid al-Din's narrative is based on Juwayni, [56] and the Nizari sources do not go into ...
Mas'ud Khan – an emir in Tabriz and a spy for Sinan; Rashid Ad-din Sinan – the Old Man of the Mountain at Alamut; Sundari Devi – half Rajput, half Persian princess from Anhilwara, whom Mathurin meets in Qazvin; Rachendra – Rajput guard of Sundari Devi; Abdul – gate guard at Alamut; Zubadiyah – girl in the Valley of the Assassins