Assassins and Templars

"This book looks at the history of the Assassins in Syria and the extraordinary relationship they had with the Templars. It seems strange to juxtapose these groups; but the relationship between the two is grounded in truth and it is a stranger true story than many fictions. We will see how they both survived and inflated their own influence by creating corporate brands', at the heart of which were the promise of death'."

"The Assassins and the Templars have become two of the most legendary groups of modern times. Although both have accumulated a huge deadweight of mythology and absurd conspiracy theories along the way, the roots of their intertwined story contain, oddly enough, much that is true and similar. The tactics were different, but their foundations were the same. The promise of unstoppable death might be in your face' in the form of a Templar charge."

Both the Ismaili Assassins and the Knights Templar became heavily mythologized, yet their intertwined histories contain substantial truths and surprising similarities. Both groups survived and expanded influence by creating corporate brands centered on the promise of death. The Templars embodied death through frontal charges, while the Assassins delivered death unexpectedly by dagger in the back. Myth and conspiracy have obscured their real tactics, but foundational similarities existed despite different methods. Modern popular culture, such as the Assassin's Creed franchise, sustains public recognition, making their stories accessible to general readers and relevant to scholars of the Crusades and medieval religion.

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