Hasan bin sabbah biography samples

Sayyidna Hasan was an outstanding, highly qualified authority on sciences of politics and mathematics.

It was not uncommon for political and military leaders of the Seljuk Turks, during the 11 th and 12 th Centuries CE, to wake up to a surprise: a dagger, firmly planted on the floor next to their bed. Despite the fortress walls, the bolted doors and the armed guards, somebody had entered their bedroom and left a note — do as you are told, or the next time the dagger will be planted into your chest.

But sometimes, no warning was given. The merciless blade would find its way into the heart, or the throat, of its target. Intimidation and targeted killings of high profile victims became their hallmark tactics, in a protracted and often desperate fight against a powerful invader. They became known as the Assassins, the loyal followers and guardians to the founder and leader of their movement: Hasan Sabbah.

Hasan and his followers emerged in a confusing and murky period of political, ethnic and religious strife in Persia and the Middle East. A period in which different Muslim factions fought each other and against the European Crusaders. No wonder then, that the history emerging from that period is shrouded in myth, legend and propaganda.

One of the first written accounts about the Assassins comes from a French priest and historian living in Syria, William of Tyre. In the early s, William wrote:. But Europeans would have to wait until to learn more about this mysterious Order. The Man had built the largest and most beautiful garden of the world,. In the garden were admitted only those whom the Old Man wanted to turn into his Assassins.

He drugged them with opium and upon waking up in the garden, he let them believe that they were experiencing a vision of Heaven. Longing to return to that Heaven, these young men were manipulated to become Assassins on behalf of the Old Man. Only death as a martyr for their cause would grant them a return to that Garden of Delights.