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Hassan-i-Sabah

Hassan-i-Sabah was an Ismaili missionary, who founded a community in the late 11th century in the hills of Northern Iran. The place was called Alamut, and his community and its branches throughout Iran and Syria came to be called Hashshashin or Assassins.

Hassan was known as the Old Man of the Mountain, and was extremely strict and disciplined. He was ruthless in his application of sharia, to the extent that he had his two sons executed: one for drinking wine and the other on a murder charge which later proved false.

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