Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi, better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi, one of the…
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The medieval tales known as Legends of the Assassins were fabricated stories about the Nizari…
Named after the sixth Imam, the Ismailis, during the course of history, have, under the…
Born around 1212, the twenty-sixth Ismaili Imam Mawlana Ala al-Din Muhammad succeeded his father to…
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, one of the major intellectual scholars of the thirteenth century who contributed…
On September 4, 1090 Hasan-i Sabbah acquired Alamut, a remote mountain-fortress in the Rudbur region…
Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Ismaili state of Alamut, arrived in Fatimid Cairo in…
In 1090, the Persian Ismailis acquired the castle of Alamut situated in a remote and…
The fortress of Girdkuh in Persia (Iran) surrendered to the Mongols on December 15, 1270.1 Girdkuh,…
On July 9, 1273, the Syrian fortress of Kahf was captured by the Mamluks.
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OCTOBER 4, 2015. By Farhad Daftary: Legends based on polemic and fantasy distorted the image…
“In contrast to the malevolent view of the Ismailis held by their opponenets, we can…
Alamut Valley Rudkhan Castle Via Rudkhan Castle, Iran – 29 Photos – Alamut Valley, Iran…
Iran plans to offer the historical Alamut Fortress to UNESCO for a possible inscription on…
This video, part of a multi-part crash course in Ismaili History, covers the Alamut period.…
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi contributed to the heliocentric model of planetary motion. Researched by Nimira Dewji…
The Nizari Ismailis of the Alamut period were highly skilled water engineers. Researched by Nimira…
Alamut was equipped with an impressive library. Researched by Nimira Dewji Hasan Sabbah acquired the…
The Alamut valley lies in the Alburz mountain range, in the north of modern-day Iran,…
…the Ismailis regard a good number of Sufi masters as their own, beginning with al-Sanai…
This paper attempts to investigate, outline and discuss the Nizari doctrines from the establishment of…
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