The Assassins

Islam has fostered many revolutionary movements, but none so fascinating to the West, perhaps, as the Assassins - the sect whose members dedicated themselves with unquestioning obedience to acts of political murder. ...An engrossing history of the Assassins, from their rise in the twelfth century under the dynamic leadership of Hasan-i Sabbah and Rashid al-Din Sinan (the Old Man of the Mountains) to their defeat, decline and eventual re-emergence in India in the nineteenth century. --