Hasan-i Sabbah

Hasan-i Sabbah
Hasan-i Sabbah
حسن صباح
	Old Man of the Mountain, Hasan-i Sabbah's 19th century engraving
Title	Mawla, Sayyidna (Our Master)
Personal
Born	c. 1050; Qom, Seljuk Empire; (present-day Qom, Iran)
Died	12 June 1124 (aged 73–74); Alamut Castle, Nizari Ismaili state; (present-day Masoudabad, Qazvin, Iran)
Religion	Shia Islam
Denomination	Ismaili Shia
Jurisprudence	Nizārī; Da'a'im al-Islam
Main interest(s)	Islamic theology; Islamic jurisprudence; Islamic law;
Occupation	Leader of Nizārī Ismā'īlī state
Organization
Order	Assassins
Founder of	Nizari Ismaili state
Senior posting
Predecessor	Position Established
Successor	Kiya Buzurg-Ummid
	Influenced Rashid-al-Din Hamadani; Kiya Buzurg-Ummid; ;

Hasan-i Sabbah^[a] (Persian: حسن صباح, romanized: Ḥāsān-e Śaḇaḥ; c. 1050 – 12 June 1124), also known as Hasan I of Alamut, was a religious and military leader, founder of the Nizari Ismai'li sect widely known as the Hashshashin or the Order of Assassins, as well as the Nizari Ismaili state, ruling from 1090 to 1124 AD.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Alongside his role as a formidable leader, Sabbah was an accomplished scholar of mathematics, most notably in geometry, as well as astronomy and philosophy, especially in epistemology.^[5]^[6] He and each of the later Assassin leaders came to be known in the West as the Old Man of the Mountain, a name given to the sect's leader in the writings of Marco Polo that referenced the sect's possession of the commanding mountain fortress of Alamut Castle.^[7]^[8]

^ Daftary 2007, p. 313.
^ Frischauer, Willi (1970). "Chapter II". The Aga Khans. The Bodley Head. p. 40. ISBN 0-370-01304-2.
^ Lewis, Bernard (1967), The Assassins: a Radical Sect of Islam, pp 38-65, Oxford University Press
^ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ E. G. Brown Literary History of Persia, Vol. 1, p. 201.
^ Nizam al-Mulk Tusi, pg. 420, foot note No. 3
^ Cite error: The named reference Wasserman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Daftary, Farhad (2012). Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis. Scarecrow Press. pp. 15, 69. ISBN 9780810861640. Retrieved 23 September 2020.

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[FOOTNOTEDaftary2007313-1] Daftary 2007, p. 313.

[3] Frischauer, Willi (1970). "Chapter II". The Aga Khans. The Bodley Head. p. 40. ISBN 0-370-01304-2.

[:0-4] Lewis, Bernard (1967), The Assassins: a Radical Sect of Islam, pp 38-65, Oxford University Press

[5] Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[ed-6] E. G. Brown Literary History of Persia, Vol. 1, p. 201.

[nizam-7] Nizam al-Mulk Tusi, pg. 420, foot note No. 3

[Wasserman-8] Cite error: The named reference Wasserman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Daftary-9] Daftary, Farhad (2012). Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis. Scarecrow Press. pp. 15, 69. ISBN 9780810861640. Retrieved 23 September 2020.

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Hasan-i Sabbah
حسن صباح
Old Man of the Mountain, Hasan-i Sabbah's 19th century engraving
Title	Mawla, Sayyidna (Our Master)
Personal
Born	c. 1050 Qom, Seljuk Empire (present-day Qom, Iran)
Died	12 June 1124 (aged 73–74) Alamut Castle, Nizari Ismaili state (present-day Masoudabad, Qazvin, Iran)
Religion	Shia Islam
Denomination	Ismaili Shia
Jurisprudence	Nizārī Da'a'im al-Islam
Main interest(s)	Islamic theology Islamic jurisprudence Islamic law
Occupation	Leader of Nizārī Ismā'īlī state
Organization
Order	Assassins
Founder of	Nizari Ismaili state
Senior posting
Predecessor	Position Established
Successor	Kiya Buzurg-Ummid
Influenced Rashid-al-Din Hamadani Kiya Buzurg-Ummid

Hasan-i Sabbah

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