List of Maps and Illustrations
Genealogical and Succession Tables
A Note on Transliteration, Titles and Dates
1 A House Divided: The Origins of the Ismaili Assassins
2 Statehood and Separation: The Assassins are Born
3 Whetting the Blade: Assassination as War
4 New Blood in a New Land: The Assassins in Syria
5 The Gathering Tempest: New Enemies for the Persian Mission
6 The White Donkey and the War Charger: Sinan and Saladin
7 Destruction in the Homeland: The Mongol Conquest of Persia
8 Mamluks, Mongols and Crusading Kings: The End of the Syrian Mission
9 Both Forgotten and Remembered: The Meaning and The Myth of the Assassins