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Al-Hashishiya The World of the Assassins

Hassan as-Sabbah was born in 1044 in Qum, in Iran, a few kilometres from the city of Ravy, which would become Tehran. An intelligence greater and eager for knowledge, he threw himself at heart lost in reading at the expense of his father who wanted to make a cloth merchant. Sent in a madrasa in Ravy, where he made the acquaintance of Omar Khayyam, the future Persian poet, who dedicated him a great friendship, and Abd el-Kassim, who will become the Great Vizier Nizam el-Mulk, who him will testify a great enmity. In Ravy, he followed studies to become Imam before be convinced by a Daï, a preacher, that the Ismaili heresy was the one who held the truth. From then on, he devoted his life to defend the Ismaili doctrine. Become an adult, he arrived in Isfahan at the request of his friend Omar Khayyam, science at the Court of the Sultan Malik Shah, putting his knowledge at its service before joining the King's Council. The extent of its competence will increase the jealousy of the Great Vizier, who will see compete to attract the protection of the monarch. Nizam el-Mulk will have the last word and Hassan will have to flee the capital to escape death. Therefore,he consigns him an eternal hatred. Hassan as-Sabbah through Persia to escape his pursuers and arrive in India, in Kabul, where he discovered that the Hashish provokes those who consume. This discovery will give him the idea to exploit the virtues of this plant to make discover the notion of paradise to his supporters. After some years of wandering, Hassan went to Egypt where there was the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir Billah in applying the doctrine Shiite Ismaili. He will be hosted by a master before being caught in the torments of the estate, after the Caliph falls ill, between supporters of the prince Nizar, elder and heir designate, which took the party, and those of the prince Ahmed, youngest son, supported by the Great Vizier Badr al-Jamali. This antagonism between the two sides will be him arrested and imprisoned. He must escape to a twist of fate where some

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