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	Hashshashin
		Although known as early as the 8th century, the foundation of the Assassins is usually marked as 1090 when Hasan-i Sabbah[?], established his stronghold in the mountains south of the Caspian Sea at Alamut.
		A Yemeni emigrant and an Ismaili Shiite, Hasan set the aim of the Assassins to destroy the power of the Abbasid Caliphate[?] by murdering its most powerful members.
		Hasan ibn Sabbah was also known as "The Old Man of the Mountain", however, this is likely to have been a mistake in translation, since "Old Man" is the literal translation of "Sheik".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hashshashin.html (445 words)

	alamut
		Hassan i Sabbah was an Isma' ili da'i of Persian origin.
		When Nizar was imprisoned and supplanted by his younger brother, Hassan i Sabbah broke with the Fatimids and seized the fortress of Alamût (The Eagle's Nest) in 1090.
		Hassan i Sabbah had complete control over his adepts who were willing to sacrifice themselves for him.These adepts known as Assassins, derived from Hashashin, consumer of Hashish, would infiltrate Hassan i Sabbah's enemies' ranks, where they would often rise to positions of prominence and trust, often posing as religious teachers or dervishes.
	www.ismaili.net /mirrors/26_alamut/alamut.htm (810 words)

	Hashshashin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although apparently known as early as the 8th century, the foundation of the Assassins is usually marked as 1090 when Hasan-i Sabbah established his stronghold in the mountains south of the Caspian Sea at Alamut.
		Hasan ibn Sabbah was also known as "The Old Man of the Mountain", however, this is likely to have been a mistake in translation, since "Old Man" is the literal translation of "Sheikh".
		Although Legends states that Hasan-i Sabbah, original leader of the Nizari Isamailies, used Hashish to grant "visions" of paradise to his followers, it is highly unlikely, given the fact that the use and effects of Hashish were well known during that time period, and frequent subjects of Imams in the Mosques.
	hashshashin.iqnaut.net (1439 words)

	Hasan-i Sabbah - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Hasan-i Sabbah (Qom, Irán, 1034?, Alamut, 12 de junio de 1124), también conocido como "El Viejo de las Montañas", fue un reformador religioso, autor y precursor de la "nueva" predicación o da'wa de los ismailitas nizaríes, que pretendía reemplazar la "antigua" da'wa de los ismailitas fatimitas de El Cairo.
		Hasan-i Sabbah (حسنى صباح) es la variante persa de su nombre.
		Hasan fue educado por su padre en la fe chiita, mostrando gran interés por la religión desde la niñez.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasan-i_Sabbah (1021 words)

	The Assassins
		In 1090, Hasan ibn Sabbah (1034-1124) seized the mountain citadel of Alamaut in northern Persia and made it his "Eagles' Nest," a center where he, as grand master, could live in relative safety and direct his forces throughout Asia.
		Hasan frequently bought boys from poverty-stricken parents and reared them in the camps where he had gathered young men to be trained as suicide commandos, leading them step by step to higher levels of combat proficiency.
		Because Hasan had indoctrinated his warriors to the belief that death in the pursuit of orders guaranteed an immediate transference to paradise, they fought with a fury untouched by the normal fear of dying in combat.
	www.unexplainedstuff.com /Secret-Societies/The-Assassins.html (1032 words)

	Assassins: The Prototype of Terror
		Hasan’s contribution to the art of assassination was that by careful selection, training, and inspiration he developed the practice into a sacred ritual and the prime weapon of a small state waging war against a great power.
		Hasan’s actual military conquests were few, and mainly confined to hilltop fortresses, as he had to fend off the Seljuk Turks’ persistent attempts to besiege him as well as the Sunni backlash.
		When the fortress of Shahdiz was doomed to fall, the wife of the commander bedecked herself with jewelry and leapt to her death, while her husband, one of the few defenders captured alive, was marched through the streets of Isfahan, mocked, pelted with filth, and flayed alive.
	www.weirdload.com /hasan.html (2241 words)

	suicidebombers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hasan was an Ismaili missionary, (an unpopular minority sect of Islam) dedicated to bringing deeper truths to a secret circle of followers.
		Often Hasan's violence is attributed to reprisals against the Crusaders, lending justification to the assassin's behavior.
		Hasan's attacks were not aimed at Crusaders until much later.
	www.homestead.com /upstream/suicidebombers.html (1480 words)

	Faith Freedom International :: View topic - A history lesson! What is Jihad and where did it come from?
		Hasan ibn al Sabbah was a man who wanted power and had become a courtier in the persian emipre.
		In 1052 Hasan ibn al Sabbah began his rise in the Seljuk empire and eventually tried to over throw his best friend Nizam al Mulk and as a result his quest for the eventual over throw of the caliphate was exposed and he fled into the mountains of northern Persia (Iran) in 1061.
		Hasan ibn al Sabbah first action of Jihad was to order the assassination of NIzam al Mulk and Hasan ibn al Sabbah began the time of terror where he threatened death to bring about social and law changes for his bandit group.
	faithfreedom.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=8045&start=0&postdays=0&... (2345 words)

	Hassan Bin Sabbah - Ismaili Hero 18
		However, Sayyidna Hasan was unaware of this and when he came to present the documents before Sultan, Sayyidna Hasan was taken aback to find that the papers were not in order as arranged by him.
		Sayyidna Hasan also being a scholar, took part in the discussions and was advocating lthna 'Ashari school of thought, but he could not remain firm on this belief, neither he was satisfied with the doctrines of Mu'tazila and 'Asha'ra.
		Sayyidna Hasan bin Sabbah upon conversing on the service to lmam said that the fortress would be of great value for the service to lmam and there at per chance bargain of the fortress at the price of 3000 dinars was arrived at.
	www.amaana.org /heroes/note018.htm (3049 words)

	Hasan ibn Sabbah - Wikipedia
		Hasan ibn al-Sabbāh (circa 1034 - 1124), detto "il vecchio della Montagna", fu il capo carismatico dei Nizariti, una setta sciita ismailita conosciuta anche sotto il nome di Assassini (Hašīšiyyūn).
		Hasan nacque a Qom, in Persia, da una famiglia sciita, ma crebbe a Rey (arabo Rayy), presso Teheran.
		Personalmente Hasan era un uomo austero e duro, che faceva applicare la legge islamica senza tentennamenti.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasan_ibn_Sabbah (568 words)

	Hassan-i-Sabah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hassan-i Sabbah (Persian: حسن صباح) (circa 1034 - 1124) also known as The Old Man of the Mountain, was an Iranian Ismā'īlī Nizarī missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran.
		Hassan i Sabbah X (the tenth in the line) appears as a Sufi mystic using the alias of "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stuart", in the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.
		Hasan ibn Saba is one of the main characters in Vladimir Bartol's Alamut novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasan-i_Sabbah (3543 words)

	Hasan-i Sabbah
		Before the period of Sayyidna Hasan, Islamic ideas were tested through philosophy and split into many schools of thought, just as Mu'tazili, Ashari, etc., and in the period of Banu Abbas, due to the problems arising from different interpretations of the Holy Quran, wide fields of arguments and discussions were created.
		Accordingly in 467 A.H. Sayyidna Hasan left Ray and after travelling for three to four years, reached Egypt in 411 A.H. and became fortunate to have holy deedar of the Imam, and upon the solicitation of Sayyidna Hasan, lmam Mustansir billah ordered that after him his son 'Nizar' would be his successor.
		Sayyidna Hasan bin Sabbah upon conversing on the service to lmam said that the fortress would be of great value for the service to lmam and there on the spot a bargain of the fortress at the price of 3000 dinars was arrived at.
	www.alamut.com /subj/ideologies/alamut/iqbal_Sabbah.html (3095 words)

	Hasan Ibn Sabbah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		because it characterizes Alamut as Sabbah is with a key: unlike the previous interpretation, in Hasan ibn which the main character a novel an allusion...
		ibn Sabbah au Mahdi, en son sein était Hassan ibn Sabbah, un Nizarites profitèrent des...
	hasanhrsx.hyjooixe.info (669 words)

	Highlander: Millennium Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hasan has spent the majority of his life in the midle territories, ever the leader of the Assassins, taking a few heads now and then.
		In the twentieth century, Hasan led several Hijads against the Israelites and ignited the Iran-Irak war during the eighties.
		Lately, he was the Iman Fakhruddin, a cruel, despotic man who met up with Keith Boyer in Istanbul; Hasan had become so addicted to hashish that he didn't even sense the buzz of Boyer and was barely able to lift his sword in the hashish house.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/hasan.htm (244 words)

	Assassinating foreign leaders: Okay! \| MetaFilter
		The order was founded by Hasan ibn al-Sabbah when he gained control (c.1090) of the mountain fortress of Alamut, located S of the Caspian Sea.
		Hasan and the grand masters who ruled the order after him wielded great political power until the coming of the Mongols.
		When Hasan needed someone to be killed, he'd tell them they could return to paradise if they followed his instructions or died in the process.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/24985 (3669 words)

	Assassins
		[In 1090,] Hasan siezed [sic] the fortress of Alamut,
		Hassan Ben Sabbah conditioned and organized a band of fearless political killers such as had never been seen before.
		Ben Sabbah then sent for them, told them Allah had given them a preview of paradise, and surprised them by telling them exactly what each had been up to while in the secret garden.
	www.skewsme.com /assassin.html (1383 words)

	Home / Headlines / Understanding Osama bin Laden through the lenses of the past - Media Monitors Network (MMN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The grand master of the latter group was Hasan-e Sabbah, an Iranian who was born around 1048 CE in the city of Rayy (not too far from today’s Tehran).
		Ibn al-Khashab, the Shi’ite Qadi (judge) of Aleppo, became their greatest critic and demanded an end to their meddling in official matters.
		One of the sect members killed Qadi Ibn al-Khashab in the summer of 1125 when he was leaving the great mosque of Aleppo after Zuhr (midday) prayer.
	usa.mediamonitors.net /content/view/full/29674 (2139 words)

	Everything about May 22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At this time, they were awakened and it was explained to them that such was their reward for the deed, convincing them that their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah, could open the gates to Paradise.
		In the very beginning Hasan was not likely to use doped and kidnapped individuals, as their fundamentalism prevented them from using any kind of drug, or making misbelievers become martyrs, as his operatives.
		But as Ismaili power grew and several Fortresses and their accompanying villages came under Ismaili rule, Hasan and his followers are believed to have begun recruiting and training assassins from birth.
	geometra.descriptiva.es.wikimiki.org /en/May+22 (10405 words)

	Imaam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (RA)
		Imaam Abu Abdullah; Imaam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (R.A) was born in Baghdad, where a great number of scholars and muhadditheen were present.
		Imaam Ahmed Ibn Muhammad Ibn Hanbal Ibn Hilaal Ibn As’ad Ibn Idrees Ibn Abdullah Ibn Hayyaan Ibn Abdullah Ibn Anas.
		Imaam Ahmad's (R.A) two sons; Saalih and Abdullah, Hanbal Ibn Is'haaq, Hasan Ibn Sabbah Bazzar, Abbas Ibn Muhammad, Muhammad Ibn Ismaa'eel Bukhari, Abu Zur'aa Raazi, Ibrahim Harabi, Husayn Ibn Mansoor, Dawood Ibn Amr, Khalaf Ibn Hishaam, Abul Qaasim Bagawi.
	www.central-mosque.com /biographies/ImaamAhmad.htm (594 words)

	Amazon.com: Alamut: Books: Vladimir Bartol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sabbah, one of Islam's most revered, and reviled, historical figures, is considered by many to be the world's first political terrorist.
		He and his followers were responsible for political assassinations throughout the region, and the legends that grew as a result of his work extended as far north as Austria, and as far east as Mongolia.
		Hasan ibn Sabbah -- the historical figure on which the novel is based, is also known as the "Old Man of the Mountain," or original "hasheeshan." Marco Polo spread his legend throughout Europe, and Bartrol based this book largely on those legends, though otherwise historically and geographically ALAMUT is is well-researched work.
	www.amazon.com /Alamut-Vladimir-Bartol/dp/0972028730 (1845 words)

	Time trip - terrorism - Brief Article Current Events - Find Articles
		The founder of the Assassins was Hasan ibn al-Sabbah.
		From Alamut, Hasan sent out secret agents to kill his enemies.
		Hasan became known as the "Old Man on the Mountain".
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_4_102/ai_92028410 (559 words)

	TIME.com: Assassination as Foreign Policy -- Jun. 23, 1975 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder.
		His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons.
		As a foretaste, he had them heavily drugged and transported to magnificent gardens constructed near his palace; there, under the influence of heavy doses of hashish,* the Fida'is were ministered to for several days by beautiful women, then drugged unconscious again and returned to real life convinced they had seen paradise.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,913174,00.html (739 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Interview with Julian Rios
		One of the founders of this sect, Hasan ibn-Sabbah, also known as the Old Man of the Mountain, used to intoxicate his followers with hashish in his fort at Alamut, in the north of Iran.
		When they were completely intoxicated or asleep, he had them moved to a secret garden in the castle, where some girls (the most beautiful in the world, according to Marco Polo) would tend to their needs, offering them fruit, attention and more hash, until they once again got intoxicated.
		Then Hasan ibn-Sabbah would have them moved back to their grungy quarters and the harsh reality of a razed landscape.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /interviews/interview_rios.html (3219 words)

	Scala House Press - Alamut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alamut is the first-ever English translation of Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol’s near-forgotten masterpiece—a bestseller across Europe and translated into 19 languages nearly 60 years after its initial publication—based on the life and legend of the original “assassin” and world’s first political terrorist, 11th century Ismaili leader Hasan ibn Sabbah.
		Revered by millions for his brilliance, and disdained by countless others for the reign of terror he spawned with his suicide missions, ibn Sabbah has inspired scores of writers throughout the centuries, including Rimbaud, Nerval, Borges and William Burroughs.
		Much more than a prophetic treatise or political allegory on terrorism, Alamut is a gripping story of one man’s unmanacled drive to play God and the human price paid by the innocent to fuel that drive.
	scalahousepress.com /titles/alamut.php (491 words)

	The Reign of Terror: October 2005
		One of the intriguing aspects of the growth and expansion of Al Qaeda, to my mind, has been the near total absence of comparative analysis between that phenomenon and the similar historical phenomenon of the rise and expansion of Hasan Ibn Sabbah and his organization of Hashishin, from which our English word assassin is derived.
		Most of those are in relation to the use of psychedelics, while very few go into any amount of detail concerning the organization or Hasan Ibn Sabbah, who was also known as the Old Man of the Mountain.
		After all, men like Hasan Ibn Sabbah and Osama bin Laden, whether from the depths of history or the high peaks of the Kush, have a long reach and a magnetism that frightens…
	www.yioni.com /2005_10_01_archpolitics.html (2802 words)

	Amazon.com: Assassin!: The Deadly Art Of The Cult Of The Assassins: Books: Haha Lung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The short version is this: In the late 11th century, Hasan ibn Sabbah, forced from his studies in Cairo, returned to his home in southern Persia, acquired a mountain fortress by hook or by crook, and created a cult of killers who terrorized the Middle East for centuries to come.
		Sabbah's castle wasn't exactly ocean-front or lake-front property.
		If you want greater truth on Sabbah and his so-called "cult," read Bernard Lewis (The Assassins) or Farhad Daftary (The Assassin Legends).
	www.amazon.com /Assassin-Deadly-Art-Cult-Assassins/dp/0873649451 (1599 words)

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