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Language English Media type Print OCLC 1740057 Genre History | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1967, 1987, 2002 Pages 166 (3rd ed.) Originally published 1967 Page count 166 (3rd ed.) Subject Assassins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ISBN 9780465004980 (3rd ed.) Publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Oxford University Press, Basic Books Similar Works by Bernard Lewis, Assassins books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam is a book, first published in 1967, written by Middle-East historian Bernard Lewis, and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. An updated edition was published by Oxford University Press in 1987, and another in 2002 by Basic Books.
Description
Lewis, a British-American professor of history at Princeton University, traces the history of the secret Islamic sect known as the Assassins, an order of the Nizari Ismailis that used assassinations throughout the Middle Ages to achieve political, military, and religious goals.
The book has been noted for its arguments linking of the early Assassins with modern Islamic terrorism.
References
The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA