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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam Bernard Lewis ebook
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Page: 176
ISBN: 0465004989, 9780465004980

Some of the promotional material akin to suicide bombers. Nintendo 64 x-amount of years ago and I don't trust my memory enough to change it) When you said "The author does point out that by completing their mission they assured their place in heaven," it brought to mind an assassin sect of radical Amida Buddhists. So first of all, Lewis in his own introduction disagrees with this statement, so that's not right, but they were definitely radical, and endorsed violence against fellow believers, which is not part of the doctrine of Islam, but has indeed been embraced by many radical elements. The Assassins (originally called Hashashim, Hashishin, or Hashashiyyin) were a religious sect of Ismaili Shia Muslims (from the Nizari lineage) originating in Persia, during the eleventh century C.E. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam New York: Basic Books, 2002. The name itself was a derogatory term used by Europeans to describe the supposedly hashish-using sect. The Hashshashin were formed by Hassan-i-Sabah, a follower of the Isma'ili sect of Shi'ite Islam. The Hashashin, also spelled Hashashiyyin or Hashshashin, were a radical sect within the Nizari Ismaili branch of Shi'i Islam. This in turn prompted the assassination of Al-Banna. They formed during the 11th century and lasted until the 13th century. This secret society was However, historian Bernard Lewis argues that their efforts were not primarily directed at Crusaders, but also against Muslim rulers whom they saw as impious usurpers. The MB have a sordid, ugly and vile history, this radical sect can never be under estimated. TIME had a great piece about the violent reaction of Sufis in Pakistan to attacks on their mosques by groups affiliated with the more hardline Deobandi sect of Sunni Islam. The Assassins were a radical Muslim sect that destabilized the Middle East and weakened its political structures, allowing the European crusaders to conquer al-Quds (Jerusalem). My latest side venture is Bernard Lewis' history, The Assassins, about the Ismaili sect of Islam which set about to kill rival Islamic leaders. In Dagestan, a large multi-ethnic republic, conflict between traditionalists and radicals escalated with the assassination of the chief mufti of the Republic Said-Muhhamad Abubakarov in 1998 and the full-scale military operation against the Islamist enclave in the villages of Kadar zone in 1999.