Assassin sect

…destroyed the fortress of the Assassins (a militant Islāmic sect) in 1256 at Alāmut in north central Iran. He then defeated the caliph’s army and captured and executed al-Mustaʿṣim, the last of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs, and in 1258 he seized and largely destroyed Baghdad. He captured Syria but was decisively…

…centuries was commonly called the Assassins.

…the Syrian branch of the Assassins (an Ismāʿīlī Shīʿī Muslim sect) at the time of the Third Crusade. He had his headquarters at a fortress in Maşyāf, in northern Syria, and was known to Westerners as the Old Man of the Mountain. Feared for his practice of sending his followers…

…Syria, Baybars dealt with the Assassins, a fanatical Islamic sect. After seizing their major strongholds between 1271 and 1273, he wiped out the Syrian members of the group.

…their detractors the ḥashīshiyyīn (assassins) because they practiced political murder while they were allegedly under the influence of hashish.

…Nizārī Ismāʿīliyyah (commonly called the Assassins by its detractors), proclaimed Nizār and his descendants as rightful imāms and condemned the caliphs in Cairo as usurpers. Even those Ismāʿīlīs, chiefly in Yemen, who had accepted al-Mustaʿlī broke away in 1130 when al-Mustaʿlī’s son al-Āmir (reigned 1101–30) was murdered by the Assassins…

…antiorthodox terrorist movement of the Assassins who murdered Niẓām al-Mulk in 1092. Before this he was partly estranged from his vizier who favoured the claims to succession of Malik-Shāh’s eldest son by his first wife against those of a son by his second wife. Further, his relations deteriorated with the…

…Europeans in the Middle Ages, Assassins (from ḥashīshī, denoting a consumer of hashish), has become a common noun in English.