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Sinan: The Old Man of the Mountain - Medievalists.net

Rashid al-Din Sinan consolidated the Nizari Assassins in 1162, using secrecy and the deliberate cultivation of fear to stabilise mountain fortresses and distance them from hostile neighbors.
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