Quotes About Ismaili

The greatest of the Nizari Ismaili leaders in Syria was Rashid ad-Din as-Sinan, who ruled over their affairs from his castle at Masyaf from the early 1160s until his death in 1192. Rashid ad-Din as-Sinan referred to himself as shaykh al-jabal—the Mountain Chief—and it was from this that the moniker the Old Man of the Mountains arose, cemented in time into the popular consciousness by

This they gleaned from Muslims opposed to the Nizari Ismaili, who used various derogatory terms for them, such as Hashishiyya or Hashshashin.

The Templars would later encounter Ismaili dualists in the form of the Assassins, who would descend from their Syrian mountain eyrie to commit acts of terror against all sides.