The History of the Assassins

The Translator has been induced to present “The History of the Assassins” to the British Public as much on account of the interest of the…

Introduction—Mohammed, founder of Islamism—Exhibition of its doctrines and of its different sects, from one of which (the Ismailites) the…

Egypt, that extraordinary country, so distinguished from all others by the many wonderful phenomena of nature, has ever been in history the…

Kia Busurgomid, who had been the general and Dai of Hassan, succeeded him in the spiritual power; and trod precisely in the sanguinary…

Reign of Hassan II., Son of Mohammed, the Son of Busurgomid, known by the name of Ala-sikrihi-es-selam—that is, Hail to his memory—and his…

The retributive and avenging Fury proceeds with steady step through the domain of history, but the traces of her silent progress are not…

The crimes of the society of murderers, which had long ago exceeded the measure of humanity, had, at length, filled to overflowing that of…

Conquest of Bagdad—Fall of the Assassins—Remnant of them.

Khitati-missr-lil Macrisi (Arabic). The Topography of Egypt, in 2 vols. folio, in the Imp. Library at Vienna, Nos. 97 and 98.

After giving a view of the dogmas of the Ismailites, Rousseau adds:—