Beginning in the world of late antiquity and the pre-Islamic period, the book takes the reader through Islam¿s formative era and early development in the Arabian Peninsula, the rise and decline of major Muslim dynasties and finally into...

Second edition of an authoritative history of the Isma'ilis. von Daftary, Farhad

For hundreds of years Westerners have been fascinated by stories of the Assassins, their mysterious leader and their remote mountain stronghold at Alamut in Northern Iran. The legends first emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries, when...