Nashenas, "Ahuye Mishkin"


Marshall Hodgson, The Order of Assassins:
an interpretation of the Nizari Isma`ilis as both a peasant revolt and as a spiritual movement comparable to the Gospel of John, and the Epistle to the Romans

Other notable apocalyptic adventures:
Munster, and the messianic reign of John of Leyden (16th cent.)
Sabbetai Zwi, the failed Jewish messiah who converted to Islam (17th cent.)

Book 2: the Assassins' Paradise
15.  Hassan unveils the "New Preaching" [not "prediction" as on page 90-- faulty translation!]
16.  Isma`ilis take Samarkand; Nizam al-Mulk engineers Seljuk conquest by tricking Terken Khatun
17.  Alamut seized by Hassan
18.  Nizam al-Mulk prepares for death and defies Malik Shah; writes Book of Government as a critique of powerful Turkish women (Terken Khatun) and Isma`ilis
19.  Terken Khatun's machinations for her sons; assassination of Nizam al-Mulk; the hierarchy of Assassins and their methods
20.  Malik Shah poisoned by minions of Nizam al-Mulk; Terken Khatun elevates her four-year-old son to throne and embraces Isma`ilism; she is strangled before she can kill Barqyaruq
21. Jahan summons Omar, he urges her to flee the palace
22.  Omar flees Isfahan; parable of the Panther; Alamut as a fortress of fanatics; Hassan kills his family
23.  Omar reaches Merv at age 66, and starts Observatory, defying the pious; receives Hassan's invitation to Alamut. Vartan writes biographical commentary to the poems, and is assassinated, the manuscript stolen
24.  Omar dies in Nishapur, Hassan dies; Isma`ili Imam Hasan II (`ala dhikrihi salam, "on whose memory be peace") reads the manuscripts and declares the Resurrection; the end of A.ssassin tactics.  The Mongols sack Alamut, and Juvayni saves a few books.