Note 294 — Chapter XVIII · The Seljūks

This assassin was one of the emissaries (or fadāwi) of Hasan ibn Sabbāh, Nizām ul-Mulk’s old school friend. For an account of the Assassins we refer the reader to the article under that heading in the Encyclopædia Britannica. For more than a century the devotees of the Old Man of the Mountain played a part in politics not dissimilar to that of the Jesuits at certain periods in Europe. See J. von Hammer’s Hist. de l’Ordre des Assassins (Paris, 1833); S. Guyard’s “Un Grand Maître des Assassins,” Journal Asiatique, 1877; and an article by Mr. E. G. Browne in St. Bartholomew’s Hosp. Journ., March 1897.