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Encyclopedia: Firdous e Bareen |
 | | Firdous e Bareen (or ÙØ±Ø¯Ùس برÛÙ in Persian and Urdu) was the name of the garden made by Hassan-i-Sabah and his band of Nizari Ismaili Shiite fugitives (the Hashshashin) in the Elburz mountains of Northern Iran, imitating paradise or heaven. |
 | | This paradise was furnished with all luxuries of life, even a rivulet of wine and was used to recruit assassins to Hassan's militia. |
 | | The famous novel Firdous e Bareen written by Indian Muslim novelist Abdul Halim Sherer gives a biographical account of Hassan, a youth lured and captured by Hassan's men and then forced into his assassination machinery. |
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