List of assassinations by the Assassins

List of assassination (attempt)s attributed to the Assassins (Hashshashins) of the Nizari Ismaili state, active in Persia, Iraq, Egypt and the Levant.

Background

ُThe Assassins were a group of Ismaili Shia Muslims that, by capturing or building impregnable forts, established a "state" of their own inside the hostile territories of the Seljuq Empire of Persia, a Sunni Muslim government, and later in the Levant. Lacking a conventional army, in order to survive, they started using unconventional tactics such as assassination of prominent enemy figures and psychological warfare.

List

Victim(s) Date Location Notes
Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuq vizier October 14, 1092 Nahavand, Persia (Seljuq Empire) [1]
Unnamed lieutenant (amir) of Seljuq Sultan Muhammad I Tapar 1107 Shahdiz, near Isfahan, Persia After a failed negotiation during the Siege of Shahdiz. The victim was wounded.
Mawdud ibn Altuntash, Turkic military leader and atabeg of Mosul 1113 Damascus, Burid dynasty
Al-Amir bi-Ahkami'l-Lah, Fatimid Caliph in Cairo 1130 Cairo, Egypt
Al-Mustarshid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad 1135 near Hamadan, Persia
Ar-Rashid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad 1138 Mosul, Iraq or Isfahan, Persia
Raymond II, Count of Tripoli 1152 At the gate of Tripoli, County of Tripoli
Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem April 28, 1192 Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem The murderer was an Assassin, but it is unclear who ordered the attack.
Möngke Khan, the fourth Mongol khagan Ilkhanate of the Mongol Empire Alleged unsuccessful assassination attempt[2]
Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre March 17, 1270 Tyre, Lordship of Tyre

References

  1. ↑ Waterson, James, The Ismaili Assassins. A history of medieval murder (Yorkshire, 2008) 79
  2. ↑ Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford, p.179 [Cited in ]
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