The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam

Bernard Lewis

166 pages first pub 1967 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced

Description

The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin.

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