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Religious Terrorism - SAGE Publications Inc

sion of Ismaili Islam and founded the Order of Assassins to defend this interpre-tation of the faith. Beginning in 1090, he and his followers seized a string of fortresses in the mountains of northern Persia, the first of which was the strong fortress of Alamut near Qazvin. Because of these origins, al-Sabbah was called The Old Man of the Mountain.

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