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The Mongols besieged Alamut on December 15, The Assassins recaptured and held Alamut for a few months in , but they were crushed and their political power was lost forever. The Mamluks continued to use the services of the remaining Assassins: In exchange, they were allowed to exist. Eventually, they resorted to the act of Taqq'iya dissimulation , hiding their true identities until their Imams would awaken them. However, following the establishment of the Christian Kingdom of Hungary , their community was vanquished by the end of the 13th century due to the Inquisitions ordered by the Catholic Church during the reign of Coloman, King of Hungary.

It is said that the Assassins are the ancestors of those given the surname Hajaly, derived from the word "hajal", a rare species of bird found in the mountains of Syria near Masyaf. The hajal bird was often used as a symbol of the Assassin's order. The legends of the Assassins had much to do with the training and instruction of Nizari fida'is , famed for their public missions during which they often gave their lives to eliminate adversaries.

Historians have contributed to the tales of fida'is being fed with hashish as part of their training. The tales of the fida'is ' training collected from anti-Ismaili historians and orientalist writers were compounded and compiled in Marco Polo's account, in which he described a "secret garden of paradise". Here, they were told by an "old" man that they were witnessing their place in Paradise and that should they wish to return to this garden permanently, they must serve the Nizari cause. Until the s, von Hammer's retelling of the Assassin legends served as the standard account of the Nizaris across Europe.

Another one of Hassan's recorded methods includes causing the hashashin to be vilified by their contemporaries. One story goes that Hassan al-Sabah set up a trick to make it appear as if he had decapitated one of his hashashin and the "dead" hashashin's head lay at the foot of his throne. It was actually one of his men buried up to his neck covered with blood.

He invited his hashashin to speak to it. He said that he used special powers to allow it to communicate. The supposed talking head would tell the hashashin about paradise after death if they gave all their hearts to the cause.

After the trick was played, Hassan had the man killed and his head placed on a stake in order to cement the deception. The count claimed to have the most powerful army and at any moment he claimed he could defeat the Hashshashin, because his army was 10 times larger. Rashid replied that his army was instead the most powerful, and to prove it he told one of his men to jump off from the top of the castle in which they were staying.

Surprised, the count immediately recognized that Rashid's army was indeed the strongest, because it did everything at his command, and Rashid further gained the count's respect. Modern works on the Nizaris have elucidated their history and, in doing so, dispelled popular histories from the past as mere legends. Historian Vladimir Ivanov was central to both this institution and the Ismaili Society of Bombay. Cataloguing a number of Ismaili texts, Ivanov provided the ground for great strides in modern Ismaili scholarship.

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In recent years, Peter Willey has provided interesting evidence that goes against the Assassin folklore of earlier scholars. Drawing on its established esoteric doctrine, Willey asserts that the Ismaili understanding of Paradise is a deeply symbolic one. While the Qur'anic description of Heaven includes natural imagery, Willey argues that no Nizari fida'i would seriously believe that he was witnessing Paradise simply by awakening in a beauteous garden.

Furthermore, Willey points out that a courtier of Hulagu Khan , Juvayni , surveyed the Alamut castle just before the Mongol invasion. In his reports about the fortress, there are elaborate descriptions of sophisticated storage facilities and the famous Alamut library. However, even this anti-Ismaili historian makes no mention of the gardens on the Alamut grounds. Having not once mentioned such gardens, Willey concludes that there is no sound evidence in favour of these legends.

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In the latter, the author suggests that the origin of the name Assassin is the Turkish word hashhash meaning opium, partly on the basis that this drug is more suitable for producing the effects suggested in the legends than hashish. For the most part, the Assassins maintained full control over these fortresses until —73 when the Mamluk sultan Baibars annexed them.

Most were dismantled afterwards, while those at Masyaf and Ulayqa were later rebuilt. The Hashashin were part of Medieval culture, and they were either demonized or romanticized. The Hashashin appeared frequently in the art and literature of the Middle Ages, sometimes illustrated as one of the knight's archenemies and as a quintessential villain during the crusades.

The word Assassin, in variant forms, had already passed into European usage in this general sense as a term for a hired professional murderer. The Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani , who died in , tells how the lord of Lucca sent 'his assassins' i suoi assassini to Pisa to kill a troublesome enemy there.

Even earlier, Dante , in a passing reference in the 19th canto of the Inferno , speaks of 'the treacherous assassin' lo perfido assassin ; his fourteenth-century commentator Francesco da Buti, explaining a term which for some readers at the time may still have been strange and obscure, remarks: The Assassins appear in many role-playing games and video games , especially in massively multiplayer online games.

The assassin character class is a common feature of many such games, usually specializing in single combat and stealth skills, often combined in order to defeat an opponent without exposing the assassin to counter-attack. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the act of murder, see Assassination. For other uses, see Assassin disambiguation. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. This article needs attention from an expert on the subject.

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