title: The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
author:  Bernard Lewis 
description: "An interesting text, and I am pleased that it is available in an affordable format."--J.C. Robutson, Washington University<br /><br />"Traces with an easy, almost conversational scholarship the emergence, triumph, and sudden demise of the Ismaili faith."--The New Yorker<br /><br />"Learned, lucid, and elegant."--The Economist<br /><br />"A very informative, interesting and thorough book."--Dhirendra Vajpey, University of Northern Iowa<br /><br />"Excellently accurate...Professor Lewis has succeeded with his usual carefulness, probity, and skill."--Times Literary Supplement (London)
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  The Assassins
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By the same author
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Arabs in History
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Emergence of Modern Turkey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Muslim Discovery of Europe
  
  
  Semites and Anti-Semites
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Political Language of Islam
  
  
  Race and Slavery in the Middle East
  
  
  The Shaping of the Modern Middle East Cultures in Conflict: Christians,
  Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery The Middle East: 2000 Years of
  History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day The Multiple
  Identities of the Middle East A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters
  and History What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Assassins
  
  
  A RADICAL SECT IN ISLAM
  
  
  
  
  
  Bernard Lewis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1967 by Bernard Lewis
  
  
  Preface to the paperback edition © 2003 by Bernard Lewis
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in 1967 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
  
  
  First published in the United States in 1968 by Basic Books, Inc, New York
  
  
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