1 Persia, Iraq and Central Asia: The Assassin Castles and Major Cities
2 Syria and Palestine: The Major Centres, Battlefields and Assassin Castles
1 Bukhara, which was sacked in 1220 by Chinggis Khan
2 Isfahan main mosque compound
3 The classic novel Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
4 The caliph before Hulegu
5 Rustam slaying the White Div
6 Ala al-Din Muhammad drugging his disciples
7 The garden of the Old Man of the Mountain
8 The siege of a Turanian stronghold
9 Bird-shaped vessel, twelfth century
10 The Prophet enthroned and four orthodox caliphs
11 Kay Kavus and Kay Khusraw approach the Fire Temple
12 A Sufi riding a leopard, from a copy of the Bustan
13 Hulegu above the gates of Alamut after its surender
14 An iwan of the city of Qazvin’s main mosque
15 The mausoleum of Sultan Sanjar
16 The Assassins in modern culture
1 Jerusalem, which fell to Saladin in 1187
2 Founder and first master of the Assassins, Hasan-i-Sabbah
3 Famous mathematician and poet, Omar Khayyam
4 The tomb of Saladin
5 Sufis from the late Ottoman Empire
6 The Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
7 The citadel of Aleppo
8 The minaret of Aleppo’s Great Mosque
9 The gateway of Aleppo’s citadel
10 The minbar of the Sunni champion Nur al-Din
11 The minaret of the Great Mosque in Mosul
12 The Mosque of the Barber in Kairouan
13 The Great Mosque of Mecca with the Kaaba
14 The Kaaba in Mecca
15 The great college mosque of al-Azhar
16 The Syrian Assassin castle of Maysaf
17 The forbidding nature of the Elburz Mountains
18 The murder of Nizam al-Mulk in 1092
19 The courtyard of the Great Mosque of Damascus