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When the Assassins Came to Damascus - Medievalists.net

Ridwan used the Nizari Assassins as pragmatic allies, employing their troops and murder teams to eliminate rivals like Mawdud and shape Syrian power during the Crusades.
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Sinan: The Old Man of the Mountain - Medievalists.net

Unprepossessing to our eyes, but designed to make an impact, he turned up at Kahf wearing self-sewn shoes and a striped headdress made of Yemeni wool. He flamboyantly rode a white donkey. There was an undeniable theatricality about the man - the drama was perhaps intuitive but possibly more self-conscious than he would have cared to admit. He was called Sinan. But he became better known by a nickname: 'The Old Man of the Mountain'.
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