The Ismaili Assassins by James Waterson

Author:James Waterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS002000; HISTORY / Ancient / General
ISBN: 9781783461509
Publisher: Frontline Books
Published: 2008-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Usama’s memoirs also show how the Assassins’ blades were not just aimed at ‘great’ men. There was a low-level war between minor lords and the sect also taking place, over patches of territory, water sources and, of course, fortified places. The governor of a castle close to Shaizar told Usama how he was attacked by four fidai’in. The governor recalled how, after the attack, he said to a servant:

‘The back of my shoulder is itching in a place I can’t reach’, and he called one of his attendants to see what had bitten him. The attendant looked and behold, there was a cut in which was lodged the point of a dagger which had broken in his back and which he had not known about . . .*

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