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	Isma'iliyyah
		After the fall of Alamut the history of the Nizaris in Syria is largely one of subjugation and persecution at the hands of the Baybars, the Ottomans and the Nusayris.
		The Nizaris in Iran also suffered persecution, and from the 14th century onwards many emigrated to India.
		Historically the headquarters of the Nizaris has been the fortress of Alamut in the Elburz mountains of northern Iran.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/islam/shia/ismal.html (856 words)

	The Assassins: 3
		At first, no doubt, the Nizaris had little time to think about such matters, being too preoccupied with ensuring their own survival in the face of outside threats; but once this seemed assured they began to yearn to return to the old Isma'ili habit of metaphysical speculation.
		The inhabitants of the Nizari territories in Iran and Syria were expected to participate in the Resurrection, and in most cases they did so; we do not know how many old-style Isma'ilis there were in Iran at this time or what their reaction to the new teaching was.
		The Nizaris were asked to shift to a new state of being, and for a time, at least, they believed that they had done so - that they were actually living in a transformed world.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /assassins/assassins-html/resurrection.html (4083 words)

	The Agha Khan's flock
		Nizaris are Shi'ites insofar as they regard 'Ali as the successor to the Prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon him).
		Nizari Imam was obliged to leave Persia in 1840, it was natural for him to seek refuge in India, where he continued to use the title "Aga Khan" (which had been bestowed on him in Persia).
		At times in the past, however, Nizaris have certainly been victims of persecution - which explains why they are still reluctant to discuss their religion with outsiders.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /melwood/368/ismaili.html (1395 words)

	Shiism - Printer-friendly - ninemsn Encarta
		The Fatimids themselves split up into several branches during the 11th century: one branch, the Nizaris, broke with the Imam-caliphs of Cairo and founded their own independent mini-state in Iran and Syria.
		Because stories of the Nizaris' daring acts of political murder had spread to the Crusaders, the term “assassin” became widespread in Europe for describing a fanatic or hired killer.
		The Nizari Imams are regarded as the ancestors of the Aga Khan, which is the official title of the Imam of the Khojas—the largest group of Ismailis today.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761570168___4/Shiism.html (695 words)

	The Institute of Ismaili Studies - Introduction to The Assassin Legends
		The creation and widespread promulgation of these stories detailing the Nizari Ismailis’; use of hashish, the earthly paradise created by the ‘Old Man of the Mountain’ and the deadly missions Ismaili devotees were ready to undertake were the result of several factors.
		Subsequently, the Nizari Ismailis of Syria became involved in a web of intricate alliances and rivalries with various Muslim rulers and with the Christian Franks, who were not interested in acquiring accurate information about their Ismaili neighbours, or indeed about any other Muslim community, in the Latin Orient.
		The distorted image of the Ismailis in general and the Nizari Ismailis in particular was maintained in orientalist circles until the opening decades of the twentieth century.
	www.iis.ac.uk /view_article.asp?ContentID=101164 (2772 words)

	Essay, Farhad Daftary, Copyright©2001 BRIIFS 3, 1
		Other Nizari groups, which found themselves isolated in remote localities or in urban areas outside of their traditional territories in Persia, soon either disintegrated or were assimilated into the religiously dominant communities of their environment.
		Hasan `Ali Shah succeeded to the Nizari Imamate in 1817 as the forty-sixth
		Nizari Ismailis of different countries and cultural backgrounds are now actively assisting in the development of the Ismaili community of Tajikistan and its newly-delineated identity, while attempting to preserve the region’s distinctive cultural heritage.
	www.riifs.org /journal/essy_v3no1_dftari.htm (5333 words)

	1082. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		An independent Isma’ili Shi’ite sect known as the Nizaris (or Assassins) maintained a base in the inaccessible fortress of Alamut in the Alborz Mountains south of the Caspian Sea.
		The Nizaris saw themselves as representatives of the rightful Isma'ili imams and enemies of the Fatimids in Cairo.
		The Mongols destroyed the Nizari base in Alamut in 1256, but the Nizari sect has survived to this day, with the Aga Khan as its head.
	www.bartleby.com /67/302.html (862 words)

	The Assassins: 3
		But the Nizaris had never forgotten that they were a spiritual elite, and their sense of their importance had if anything been enhanced by their separation from Cairo.
		At first, no doubt, the Nizaris had little time to think about such matters, being too preoccupied with ensuring their own survival; but once this seemed assured they began to yearn to return to the old Ismaili habit of metaphysical speculation.
		The Nizaris of the Resurrection, however, threw away not just the shell of the egg but the white as well, and concentrated all their attention on the yolk - the Secret of Secrets.
	ismaili.net /resurrection.html (4016 words)

	Nizaris
		The Nizaris had been one of those groups which resulted of the breaking-up of the Shiite dynasties at the end of the 11th century.
		The Nizaris, widely known as extremely barbarian, may even have paid up to 2,000 gold coins as a "protection fee" to prevent attacks of the Temple knights who controlled the Syrian mountain areas.
		In 1256, the Nizaris' main fortress el-Alamuth was destroyed by the Mongolian ruler Hülagü.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0111261/pages/discover_assassins_ass.php?interlang=englisch (396 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Does "assassin" derive from "hashish"?
		The Musta'lians settled primarily in Cairo while the Nizaris seized several castles and fortifications in Persia, eventually settling in Iran and Syria.
		The political power of the Nizaris in Syria and Persia (modern Iran) was destroyed in the 13th century.
		In the 19th century the Nizaris were reorganized under the Aga Khan, the group's religious leader, and moved to India, where Nizari missionaries had organized several communities centuries earlier.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/massassin.html (879 words)

	Ismailites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Although Shiism had its birthplace in what today is Iraq (south of Baghdad), it became very influential in Persia through the adherence to it of the Buyids of Daylam (late 8th century), perhaps from ethnic antagonism to the mostly Sunni Arabs.
		Outside of their mountainous eyries and the territories they controlled from them, the Ismailites became a terrorist force and were responsible for the murder of Seljuk and Abbasid generals and functionaries and even a sultan and two caliphs.
		In Persia itself Nizari tradition survived the fall of the Ismailite fortresses and in 1818 shah Fath Ali conferred on Hasan Ali Shah, the 46th Nizari imam, the title of Aga Khan and named him governor of Qom.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /history/i/Ismailites.htm (1496 words)

	Mind Control And Murder Cults
		For all their similarities, there were seemingly insurmountable obstacles that caused many to consider comparisons between the Assassins and al Qaeda to be more glib than accurate.
		The Assassins, or the Nizaris, were a sect of Shi'a Islam founded in the 11th century by a charismatic religious leader named Hasan I-Sabbah.
		The murders were accomplished by stealth and infiltration, and the Nizaris were said to have agents within the courts of many regional kings.
	www.rotten.com /library/conspiracy/al-qaeda-and-the-assassins/mind-control (4936 words)

	Chapter 5
		The Nizaris were therefore quartered on the western side of the plain, and the Yemenis on the eastern side, according to the lots drawn with arrows, as was the custom of the Arabs.
		6: Bakr, Taghlib, and all the branches of the Rabi'a (Nizaris);
		In the third were Bakr (Nizari) and Kinda (Yemeni), and in the fourth, Asad (Nizari) and Madhhij (Yemeni).
	www.al-shia.com /html/eng/books/history/origins-development-shia-islam/12.htm (3233 words)

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		Beginning in the late 11th century, the Nizaris began to spread across Persia (Iran) and Syria, and followers of the sect inspired terror throughout the Muslim world for their violence and blind obedience to their spiritual leader.
		The Nizaris remained in political power until they were displaced by the Mongols and the Mamluks in the 14th century.
		A strong leader, he ordered his millions of followers to leave countries in which they were persecuted and to become citizens of nations in which they were allowed to practice their religion freely.
	www.gigfoot.net /lol/facts/881.html (600 words)

	Theo-2
		The Yemenis Ismailis, Nizaris, who continue to exist, believe that Mustali's grandson would return as the Mahdi.
		The Nizaris gave rise to such cults as the Assassins and remained in power until deposed by the Mongols and Mamlukes.
		Other sects which derive from the Nizaris are the one headed by the Aga Khan, the Druze who formed a separate religion and regard the Imams as incarnations of the godhead, the Yazdis, the Nusayris, and the Bahais who also formed separate religions.
	www.altway.freeuk.com /Views/View-128.htm (4128 words)

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		The stories surrounding the Nizari Ismailis are clearly fabricated because of the group’s culture and priorities, therefore the legends are a product of the political agendas of opposing Muslim groups who introduced the myths and the European Crusaders who embellished the myths.
		After the fall of the Fatimid dynasty in 1094 the Nizaris retreated to the mountains in Northern Persia (now known as Iran) and acquired an almost inaccessible fortress known as Alamud to avoid oppression and persecution.
		The stories surrounding the Nizari Ismailis are clearly fabricated because of the group’s culture and priorities, therefore the legends are a product of the agendas of opposing Muslim groups who introduced the myths and the European Crusaders who embellished the myths.
	www.free-college-essays.com /Religion/8873-The_Assassins.html (800 words)

	Theo-2
		The Yemenis Ismailis, Nizaris, who continue to exist, believe that Mustali's grandson would return as the Mahdi.
		The Nizaris gave rise to such cults as the Assassins and remained in power until deposed by the Mongols and Mamlukes.
		Other sects which derive from the Nizaris are the one headed by the Aga Khan, the Druze who formed a separate religion and regard the Imams as incarnations of the godhead, the Yazdis, the Nusayris, and the Bahais who also formed separate religions.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /hsaziz/Views/View-128.htm (4128 words)

	The Assassins: 4
		At this early stage, however, the Franks considered the Nizaris simply as another group of Saracens; not until 1152 did the Nizaris first achieve widespread notoriety among the Christians, as the result of their murder of Count Raymond II of Tripoli.
		The Nizaris made their peace with Saladin and the Franks found themselves facing a united Islam at a time when their own state was in disarray.
		He left the Nizaris of Syria in a strong position, and though this was somewhat weakened in the years that followed they maintained their independence until the Mongol conquest.
	ismaili.net /assasyria.html (8209 words)

	Secrets of the Assassins
		In fact Hasan's first major publicity coup was the murder of the Prime Minister of Persia, perhaps the most powerful man of the era (and according to legend, a childhood friend of Sabbah's).
		For the Nizaris, to practise Concealment was to practise the Law; in other words, pretending to be orthodox meant obeying the Islamic Law.
		His enemies were perhaps in league with conservative elements at Alamut who resented the Qiyamat, the dissolving of the old secret hierarchy (and thus their own power as hierarchs) and who feared to live thus openly as heretics.
	www.newdawnmagazine.com /Article/Secrets_of_the_Assassins.html (2129 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia - Ismailis - AOL Research & Learn
		An offshoot, the Assassins, established a state in NE Iran, which survived until the 13th cent.
		Today, though a minority community that is not politically active, the Ismailis are spread in small pockets in parts of the Middle East, central and S Asia, and increasingly North America and Europe.
		The family of the Aga Khan, the Nizari imam, traces its descent from Ismail.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/ismailis/20051206061509990002 (310 words)

	ShaikhSiddiqui Khoja
		Among the Shias of South Asia the Ithna-Asharis are in the majority while the Khojas and Bohras of Western and Central South Asia belong to the two internal divisions of the Isma`ili group of Muslims - the Nizaris (Khojas) with Satpanth Ismailism and the the Musta‘lis (Bohras or Bohri) with Tayyibi Ismailism.
		Musta'liyah Isma'ilis were centered in Cairo while the Nizaris, consolidated their positions in Iran and Syria.
		The Nizaris (Misaris) gained prominence during the Crusades when a society of Misaris, called Assassins, harassed both the Crusaders and Sultan Salah-ad-Din al Ayubi (Saladin) at the time of the crusades of the eleventh century.
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /khoja.html (765 words)

	Islamic Calendar: Tabular Islamic Calendar
		It seems to have been designed to be closer to new Moon than to the first visibility of the lunar crescent, so it often runs a day or two ahead of the regular Islamic calendars.
		There are currently about one million Bohras and about 15 millions Nizaris, compared to over a billion Sunnis and close to a hundred million Twelver Shi`ites.
		Both of these groups are today primarily Indian Muslim groups, but they trace their history from the Fatimid Caliphate that ruled Egypt from about 970 to 1171.
	www.lycos.com /info/islamic-calendar--tabular-islamic-calendar.html (420 words)

	The Bohra Chronicle FEB 1998
		And the two sons of ‘Ali and Fatima the Prophet’s celebrated daughter, Hasan and Hussein, became the first two imams after ‘Ali and the imamah (the highest religious leadership after wasi) continued in the progeny of the second Imam Hussein.
		The Isma’ilis were subsequently divided into four sects the Qaramitahs (we will write about them in a separate paper), the Duruzes (mainly found in the mountains of South Lebanon), the Nizaris (the present followers of the Aga Khan) and the Musta’lians (known as the Bohras in India).
		The Druzes, the Nizaris and the Bohras are well established Isma’ili communities with distinct identities of their own.
	www.dawoodi-bohras.com /chronicle/feb98/feb_ismaili.htm (2187 words)

	assassin - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Word History: Active in Persia and Syria from the 8th to 14th centuries, the original Assassins were members of the Nizaris, a Muslim group who opposed the Abbasid caliphate with threats of sudden assassination by their secret agents.
		Other populations of the area regarded the Nizaris as unorthodox outcasts, and from this attitude came one of the names for the group, ḥaššāšīn, a word originally meaning "hashish users," which had become a general term of abuse.
		Marco Polo tells a tale of how young Assassins were given a potion and made to yearn for paradise—their reward for dying in action—by being given a life of pleasure.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/assassin (420 words)

	Isma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Nizaris of Quhistan possessed the authority of a local chief, called muhtasham, who was appointed from Alamau but enjoyed a great deal of local initiative in managing the affairs of the community there.
		It is also possible, however, that the Syrian Nizaris were forced on occasion to supply individuals for the missions in question.
		That the chroniclers evidently identify the Syrian Nizari Isma'ili community of the Mamluk times as the sole source of supply for the sultan's would‑be `assassins' clearly attests to the durability of the legends and hostile rumours regarding the practices of the Nizari Isma'ilia of the Alamut period.
	www.sirreadalot.org /islam/ismailihistoryR.htm (1966 words)

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