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. until the twentieth century knowledge of the Assassins was based largely on hostile sources - Crusaders who viewed their suicidal courage with the awe and Moslems who regarded them as dangerous heretics. Modern scholarship, however, has slowly peeled away the layers of secrecy and... Voir plus