The series "The Assassins"... 8 information about the real "Hassan Al-Sabah".

The series “The Assassins” caught the attention of the audience immediately after the first episodes were shown, especially since it was taken from real events from the twenty-first century, where the artist Karim Abdel Aziz, the hero of the work, embodies the character of Hassan Al-Sabah, the founder of the “Assassins sect.”

Who is Hassan al-Sabah, the founder of the Assassin sect? 1. He was born in Al-Ray in 430 AH 1037 AD. Some historians mentioned that he was born in Qom, the stronghold of Twelver Shiites, where he grew up in a Twelver Shiite environment. Then his family moved to Al-Ray, a center for the activities of the Ismaili sect, so he adopted the Ismaili Fatimid way when he was 17 years old.

2. The Assassin sect was called by several names. Unlike the Assassins, it was known as “Hashashish, or the New Call,” and they are the ones who called themselves that. It was a Nizari Ismaili sect. It separated from the Fatimids in the late fifth century AH - eleventh century AD to call for the imamate of Nizar. The chosen one for the religion of God and those who come from his descendants.

3. Hassan continued to read Ismaili books, and after that he met another Ismaili teacher, who taught him the Ismaili teachings until he was convinced, and all that remained for him was to take the oath of loyalty to the Fatimid Imam. But he took that oath before an Ismaili missionary, the representative of Abd al-Malik ibn Attash, the chief Ismaili preacher in western Iran and Iraq. In the early summer of 1072, Abd al-Malik ibn Attash arrived in the city of Rayy, where Hasan al-Sabah met him, then agreed to his joining, and set for him a specific mission in the mission, and asked He was asked to travel to Egypt in order to register his name in the court of the Fatimid Caliph in Cairo.

4. Hassan remained in Egypt for about three years between Cairo and Alexandria, then it was said that he had a disagreement with the commander of the armies, Badr al-Din al-Jamali, so he imprisoned him and then expelled him from Egypt on a Frankish boat to North Africa, but the boat sank on the way, so Hassan survived, so they transported him to Syria, then he left it. He left for Baghdad and from there returned to Isfahan.

5. Hassan al-Sabbah’s only concern in his travels was not only to spread his message and gain supporters, but also to find a suitable place that would protect him from the persecution of the Seljuks and turn it into a base for spreading his preachers and ideas. He was reluctant to go to cities because of their exposure, so he did not find anything better than the impregnable fortress of Alamut, and it was built. In a way that it has only one road that reaches it and it winds on an artificial slope (the natural slope has steep and dangerous rocks), so any invasion of the fort must be taken into account because of the danger of undertaking this act.

6. He remained there for the rest of his life and did not leave the castle for 35 years until his death. Most of his time was spent reading, corresponding with preachers, and preparing plans. His concern was to gain new supporters and control other castles, so he continued to send preachers to the villages surrounding nearby Rudbar, and send militias to take castles through propaganda tricks.

7. After the death of Al-Mustansir Billah in 487 AH/1094 AD, the vizier Badr al-Din al-Jamali called for the imamate of al-Mustali, the youngest son of al-Mustansir (the minister’s nephew), and the removal of the eldest son, “Nizar,” the crown prince. Thus, the Fatimiyah split into the Nizari, Levantine, and Musta`li, Moroccan. Al-Sabah split from the Fatimids to call for the imamate of Nizar bin Al-Mustansir Billah and those who came from his descendants. Hassan Al-Sabah was in the regime merely an agent of the Fatimid leaders in Egypt and a deputy to Abd al-Malik bin Attash and his successor. He took Alamut Castle in the city of Rudbar, near the Shah Ward River in Persia, as a center for spreading his call and consolidating the pillars of his state.

8. Al-Sabah died in 518 AH/1124 AD in his castle, and the sources differed about the fate of his descendants (Western and some Arabic sources mention that he killed his children during his lifetime), but all sources unanimously agree that he died without a crime. He was succeeded by Buzurg Amid (Barzjamid), and he assigned people to the affairs of preaching, administration, and commanding the forces, and asked them to cooperate with each other until the hidden Imam appeared and took over the affairs of the sect. The Sheikh of the Mountain, Sayyid Hassan al-Sabah, died on Rabi’ al-Thani 7, 518 AH / May 23, 1124 in the Alamut Castle.