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| | Nizaris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | The Nizaris are a sect of (One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran) Shia Muslims that accept Nizar as their ((Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide) Imam. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/N/Ni/Nizaris.htm
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| | The Institute of Ismaili Studies: ‘Hasan II’ by Farhad Daftary in Encyclopaedia Iranica |
| | Born in 520/1126, Hasan II, whom the Nizaris call ‘ala Dhikrihi’l-salam (on his mention be peace), succeeded to the leadership of the Nizari Ismaili da‘wa and state on the death of the third ruler of Alamut, Muhammad b. | | | The contemporary Nizaris accepted this claim, which was reiterated more explicitly by Hasan II’s son and successor, Nur al-Din Muhammad. | | | This was made manifest in the person of the Nizari imam, who, as the enunciator of the qiyama, the ‘qa’im al-qiyama,’ held a rank even higher than that of an ordinary imam, according to esoteric Shi‘i doctrine. |
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http://www.iis.ac.uk/research/encyclopaedias/hassan2.htm
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| | The whole of Nizari spiritual life centred on the Imam, who was divine, a manifestation of God. | | | The inhabitants of the Nizari territories in Iran and Syria were expected to participate in the Resurrection, and in most cases they did so; we do not know how many old-style Isma'ilis there were in Iran at this time or what their reaction to the new teaching was. | | | The difference, however, was that for the Nizaris their spiritual leader was no ordinary human sheikh but the divine Imam himself. |
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http://www.accampbell.uklinux.net/assassins/assassins-html/resurrection.html
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| | The Agha Khan's flock |
| | Nizaris are Shi'ites insofar as they regard 'Ali as the successor to the Prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon him). | | | At times in the past, however, Nizaris have certainly been victims of persecution - which explains why they are still reluctant to discuss their religion with outsiders. | | | Nevertheless, in 1866 and again in 1905 there was a reaction in Nizari ranks to the changes being initiated by the Aga Khans, and to the manner in which (as living Imams) they were reinterpreting The Holy Qur'an. |
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http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/melwood/368/ismaili.html
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| | Essay, Farhad Daftary, Copyright©2001 BRIIFS 3, 1 |
| | Hasan `Ali Shah succeeded to the Nizari Imamate in 1817 as the forty-sixth | | | (In Persia, for instance, the Nizaris had hitherto observed their religious rituals mainly in the manner of the Twelver Shi`is and in their mosques.) More specifically, the Nizari identity was defined in a series of constitutions that Aga Khan III promulgated for his followers in India, East Africa and other regions. | | | The Persian Nizari community had by then shrunk significantly, however, owing to continual persecution as well as the long-term consequences of dissimulating practices. |
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http://www.riifs.org/journal/essy_v3no1_dftari.htm
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| | Hashshashin : Hashishim |
| | The Hashshashin (also Hashishim), or Assassins were a religious sect (Nizaris) of Islam with a militant basis, thought to be active in the 8th through 14th (?) centuries as a group of brigands on the medieval Afghanistan Silk Road. |
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http://www.fastload.org/ha/Hashishim.html
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| | Other sects which derive from the Nizaris are the one headed by the Aga Khan, the Druze who formed a separate religion and regard the Imams as incarnations of the godhead, the Yazdis, the Nusayris, and the Bahais who also formed separate religions. | | | The Yemenis Ismailis, Nizaris, who continue to exist, believe that Mustali's grandson would return as the Mahdi. | | | But when the Caliph al-Mustansir died, the Egyptian and Yemenese Ismailis, Mustalis recognized his son, al-Mustali, and those of Iran and Syria, Nizaris, recognized the older son, Nizar as Imam. |
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http://www.altway.freeuk.com/Views/View-128.htm
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| | Mind Control And Murder Cults |
| | The Assassins, or the Nizaris, were a sect of Shi'a Islam founded in the 11th century by a charismatic religious leader named Hasan I-Sabbah. | | | They were said to be fanatically committed to their leader, Hasan, and his successors as Grand Master, and they considered martyrdom a great honor. | | | That saying could be inscribed on the coat of arms for Al Takfir Wal Hijra, the Islamic cult that dominates the leadership of al Qaeda. |
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http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/al-qaeda-and-the-assassins/mind-control
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| | Did you know? 881 - LOL Facts - Web Software & Hosting |
| | The Nizari Ismaili sect of the Shiite Muslims welcomes a new spiritual leader when Prince Karim Al-Hussain of Pakistan is proclaimed Aga Khan IV. | | | Beginning in the late 11th century, the Nizaris began to spread across Persia (Iran) and Syria, and followers of the sect inspired terror throughout the Muslim world for their violence and blind obedience to their spiritual leader. | | | A strong leader, he ordered his millions of followers to leave countries in which they were persecuted and to become citizens of nations in which they were allowed to practice their religion freely. |
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http://www.gigfoot.net/lol/facts/881.html
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| | Polo describes the Nizari enclave as containing "the most beautiful houses and the most beautiful palaces that were ever seen." There were also "plenty of garments, couches, food, and all things which can be desired. | | | The first chapter, "The Isma`ilis in History and in Medieval Muslim Writings," focuses on the history of the Isma`ilis during the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, a time during which Hassan I. Sabbah emerged as a leader, establishing Alamut, perched in northern Iran, as the center of his operations in 1090. | | | Daftary's main argument here is that "the Nizaris were definitely not an `order of assassins' bent on destroying Islam" (p.38). |
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http://ismaili.net/mirrors/2alamut/alamut.html
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| | There is even a suggestion that he was himself convinced of the truth of Nizari religious doctrines. | | | Yet study of the Christian gospels was a long-standing tradition in Nizari circles and it seems likely that, for the more intellectually sophisticated Nizaris at least, Christianity was no further from the truth than was Sunni Islam. | | | As soon as Muhammad was dead a separatist faction put their own man in power, but the usurper was murdered at the instigation of one Fahd. |
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http://www.accampbell.uklinux.net/assassins/assassins-html/sinan.html
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| | IIS - Archive article |
| | As far as the Nizaris or popularly known as the Agakhanis are concerned they believe that one of their Imams i.e. | | | Among the Twelvers the twelve Imams and among Nizaris the existing Imam (known as Hazir Imam) and among the Musta'lians the twenty one imams and after them their deputies known as Du'at al-Mutlaq. | | | But except Zaidis and Nizaris imam in all other Shi'ah traditions is in seclusion. |
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http://www.csss-isla.com/IIS/archive/archive.php?article=http://www.csss-isla.com/IIS/archive/2001/july.htm
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| | The Institute of Ismaili Studies: Introduction to The Assassin Legends |
| | It was under such circumstances that the Syrian Nizaris were forced to confront a new adversary in the Christian Crusaders who, from 1096, had set out in successive waves to liberate the Holy Land of Christendom from the domination of the Muslims (or the Saracens as they were commonly but incorrectly called). | | | In 1094, the Ismaili movement, which had enjoyed unity during the earlier Fatimid period, split into its two main branches, the Nizaris and the Musta‘lians. | | | The first contact between the Europeans, or the Latin Franks, then engaged in the Crusading movement to liberate the Holy Land, and the members of this Shi‘i Muslim community occurred in Syria during the earliest years of the twelfth century. |
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http://www.iis.ac.uk/learning/life_long_learning/assassin_legends/assassin_legends.htm
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| | In 524 A.H. (1130) the Nizaris assassinated al-Amir, the son of al-Musta'li and the belief developed among his followers that al-Amir had a son named at-Tayyib who had gone into hiding on the death of his father. | | | Hasan Ali Shah Mohallati was also the first Nizari Imam to make Bombay the permanent seat of the Immate in 1259 A.H. (Encyclopedia of Islam). | | | The spilt in the Khoja Community occurred in the first half of 19th century. |
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http://www.ksijamat.com/history.asp
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| | Ismailis, Isma'iliyyah, Ismaili |
| | The Nizaris in Iran also suffered persecution, and from the 14th century onwards many emigrated to India. | | | The second branch, the Musta'lis, distinguished themselves from the Nizaris through their support of al-Mustansir's younger son, al-Musta'li. | | | Late in the 11th century a split occurred between the Mustalis, who recognized al-Mustali as the caliph-imam (concentrated in Egypt, Yemen, and India), and the Nizaris, named for Mustali's brother Nizar, with strongholds in Iran and Syria. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/ismaili.htm
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| | 6: Bakr, Taghlib, and all the branches of the Rabi'a (Nizaris); | | | In Ali's reorganization the number of Yemeni groups was raised to four and the Nizaris' reduced to three. | | | It has been discussed in detail in Chapter I that the South Arabians, due to their long and deep-rooted tradition of the priest-king with hereditary sanctity and therefore hereditary succession, were more prone toward what we called the Shi'i ideal of leadership of the community. |
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http://www.al-shia.com/html/eng/books/history/origins-development-shia-islam/07.htm
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| | Isma |
| | In chapter is, Professor Ali Asani re‑examines the traditional views on the `authorship' of the ginans, the devotional poems that enjoy a `sacred' status within the Nizari Isma'ili Khoja community. | | | It is also possible, however, that the Syrian Nizaris were forced on occasion to supply individuals for the missions in question. | | | The ginans as it is well‑known, contain instructions on a range of themes and topics related to religious obligations, moral issues, and the spiritual quest of the soul. |
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http://www.sirreadalot.org/islam/ismailihistoryR.htm
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| | The followers of Imam Ali (a.s) > The Belief of Shia > Imamah > Branches of Shiism |
| | Centuries later, in 1255/1839, the Aqa Khan of Mahalat in Persia, who belonged to the Nizaris, rebelled against Muhammad Shah Qajar in Kerman, but he was defeated and fled to Bombay. | | | After Kiya Muhammad, his son Hasan 'AlaDhikrihi'l-Salam, the fourth ruler of Alamut, changed the ways of Hasan al-Sabbah, who had been Nizari, and became Batini. | | | After the death of Hasan in 518/1124 Buzurg Umid Rudbari and after him his son, Kiya Muhammad, continued to rule following the methods and ways of Hasan al-Sabbah. |
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http://www.imamalinet.net/en/es/esa/esai/esaig/esaig.htm
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| | AhlulBayt Discussion Forum > Ismaili Aga Khanis |
| | As far as Muslim Shia Nizari Ismailis are concerned, prayers are performed daily in worship of Allah (swt) and in remembrance of past/current Imam(s) (Imam-e-Zamaana). | | | The Nizari Ismailies believe in a continuing line of Imams - that in every age and time there is a Imam who is Hazar (present) and Mawjud (living). | | | These prayers were established by the current Imam...who is intern the direct lineal descendant/successor of/to the Holy Prophet, in terms of temporal and spiritual matters related to the Nizari Ismaili Muslim Community. |
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http://www.shiachat.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t53007-50.html
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| | Isma'ilite -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The Egyptian Isma'ilites recognized his son al-Musta'li, but the Isma'ilites of Iran and Syria upheld the claims of his older son, Nizar; hence, there are two branches of Fatimids, the Musta'lis and the Nizaris. | | | The minor line died out by the 18th century, while the major line, led by an imam called the Aga Khan, moved from Iran to India in 1840. | | | eldest son of the Aga Khan I. In 1881 he succeeded his father as imam, or spiritual leader, of the Nizari Isma'ilite sect of Shi'ite Muslims, and, during his short imamate, sought to improve the conditions of the community. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9042936
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| | Before the word was given to murderers it was given to a small group of Muslims known as the Nizari Ismailis, who were a minority. | | | At one point in time, the Nizaris had become the most feared community in the Medieval Islamic world. | | | The word assassin originated from the Arabic word for hashish (hashishin). |
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http://www.free-college-essays.com/Religion/8873-The_Assassins.html
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| | Ismaili Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The Arabic tradition was continued in Yemen and India by the Musta‘li branch and in Syria by the Nizaris. | | | In Persia and in Central Asia, the tradition was preserved and elaborated in Persian. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/i/ismaili.htm
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| | The Aga Khanis (or Nizaris) believe in fact that the Aga Khan is that living Imam, descendant of Ali AS. | | | It is an article of faith that the line can never be broken. | | | The Bohras, my community, believe that the 21st Imam went into occlusion and continued his line. |
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http://shiapundit.blogspot.com/2003_12_28_shiapundit_archive.html
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| | Other Nizaris in Gudjarat remained faithful to the imams in | | | Satgur Nur, is in Nawsari in Gudjarat, where the religious texts place his activity. | | | afterwards the Nizari fortresses near Arradjan were overcome. |
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http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ei/isma.htm
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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: Does "assassin" derive from "hashish"? |
| | In the 19th century the Nizaris were reorganized under the Aga Khan, the group's religious leader, and moved to India, where Nizari missionaries had organized several communities centuries earlier. | | | The word became inseparable from the stories of murder, treachery, and excess and is thought to have evolved into the modern word assassin, although this etymology is not universally accepted. | | | The political power of the Nizaris in Syria and Persia (modern Iran) was destroyed in the 13th century. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/massassin.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Assassin (Islam) - Encyclopedia |
| | The members of the order were distinguished by their blind obedience to their spiritual leader (known in the West as the Old Man of the Mountain) and by their use of murder to eliminate foes. | | | They are known as Nizaris after Nizar ibn al-Mustansir, whom they supported as caliph. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/A/Assassin-1.html
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| | THE IRANIAN: Chechnya, Iqbal Latif |
| | An imam named Hasan ibn al-Sabbah established the occult branch of Sevener Shiism, known as the Nizaris, in the mountains of Western Iran. | | | The Seveners believed in a doctrine of seven sinless spiritual leaders who shared characteristics with God Himself. | | | Due to hashish-laden drinks that Nizari leaders supposedly gave their followers before sending them out to commit assassinations, the Nizaris are better known by the Syrian name of hashshashin, or hashish-takers. |
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| | A radical sect in Islam: 1090-1273 Samizdata.net |
| | In 1130, after the murder of the caliph al-Amir, the son and successor of al-Mustali by Nizaris or the Syrian Assassins, with whom they had come to terms, the remaining Ismailis also defected from the Fatimid caliphate, claiming that a lost infant son of al-Amir, called Tayyib, was the hidden and awaited Iman. | | | Nizar led a rebellion, and was killed, but his followers remained, refusing any allegiance to the Fatimid caliph. | | | One significant one was the murder of the Egyptian Vizier/puppet-master in 1121, which liberated the Fatimid caliph from tutelage and who invited the Nizaris to renounce their claims. |
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| | intelwire.com :: investigative reports on terrorism, terrorist, jihadist, Iraq war, insurgents DVDs, video, stock ... |
| | On September 11, many Americans took their first hard look at the web of extremist groups known as al Qaeda, and publishers scoured their libraries for books that could offer insight into the phenomenon of radical Islamic terrorism. | | | Many drew an immediate connection between al Qaeda and the infamous Islamic radical sect of the 11th century, the Nizaris, best known today as the Assassin cult. | | | These early comparisons were often more glib than apt; many glossed over important gaps that created a seemingly insurmountable gulf of history and theology between the two movements. |
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http://intelwire.egoplex.com
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| | After the empire fell, for the most part Ismaili presence in the Muslim world greatly diminished, except for an Ismaili sub-sect, the Assassins (Nizaris), who were quite powerful for over a century after that. | | | Control of the holy cities conferred enormous prestige on a Muslim ruler and the power to use the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca to his advantage. | | | Numbering at 15 million adherents, the Ismailis are the second largest Shi'ite group and found mostly in the Indian subcontinent, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and East Africa. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Print Preview - Shiism |
| | The Fatimids themselves split up into several branches during the 11th century: one branch, the Nizaris, broke with the Imam-caliphs of Cairo and founded their own independent mini-state in Iran and Syria. | | | Because stories of the Nizaris' daring acts of political murder had spread to the Crusaders, the term “assassin” became widespread in Europe for describing a fanatic or hired killer. | | | The Nizari Imams are regarded as the ancestors of the Aga Khan, which is the official title of the Imam of the Khojas—the largest group of Ismailis today. |
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| | Alibris: Nizaris |
| | Surviving the Mongols: The Continuity of Ismaili Tradition in Iran | | | The Nizari Isma'ili Tradition in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent | | | This lively study examines the poetic writings of Nizari Quhistani, one of the few Ismaili authors who survived the Mongol invasion of Iran in the 13th century. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Nizaris
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| | Q5) The Bogomils were a heretical movement that first flowered in the Balkans in the mid-tenth century, and were considered a serious threat to religious orthodoxy. | | | Q4) The Nizaris were a sub-sect of Shi'ite Muslims from around the 12th Century AD. | | | This word comes from a byname for the Nizaris. |
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http://www.physicsforums.com/printthread.php?t=41482
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| | This new sect posed as a religious group and was called the Nizaris, although some called them Hashishin, or "users of Hashish." | | | Polk: In 1078 A.D., a man named Hassan-I Sabbah formed an offshoot of the Ismailis. | | | Sabbah used hashish, amongst other drugs, most likely, to bend followers to his will. |
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http://www.yawp.com/3rd-i/vol5/vol5No6/mindcon.html
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| | The Beauty of Islam - A Xanga Blogring |
| | So come all ye Ahmadis, Baha'is, Submitters, Moors, Nation of Gods and Earths, Nation of Islam, Nuwaubians, Nusayris, Druzes, Yezidis, Wahhabis, Ismailis, Imamis, Zaydis, Babis, Alawis, Hanafis, Hanbalis, Malikis, Shafi'is, Ash'aris, Maturidis, Ibadis, Muta'zis, Kharijis, Nizaris, Musta'lis, Qarmatis, and Sufis of all orders. | | | I am from Country of Iran, State of Yazd, and Village of Taft. | | | Wherever there is La ilaha il'allah there you find Islam, and so this is a ring for Shi'as, Sufis, and Sunnis, of all different types, to come together and show us Islam. |
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| | Nizari: Information From Answers.com |
| | Nizaris differ from Mustaalids in that they believe that the successor-Imam to the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir was his elder son Nizar, rather his younger son al-Mustaali. |
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| | Nizaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Nizaris are a sect of Shia Muslims that accept Nizar as their Imam. | | | This page was last modified 06:41, 13 August 2005. |
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| | With a later imam, in the 13th century, Shamsu d-Din, the Nizaris were split. | | | The other group was called Muhammad-Shâhîs, and all Syrian Nizaris belonged to this, while a majority among them joined the Qäsim-Shâhî in early 20th century. | | | Later imams of this line of Isma'ili Shi'ism lived in concealment or act as other types of Muslim leaders (f.x. |
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http://lexicorient.com/e.o/ismailis.htm
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| | I'm aware that certain Muslim religious authorities have declared that the Nizaris, Musta'ilis, Alawis, Druze, Ahmadis and Baha'i are unbelievers and/or apostates, and that many Muslims parrot these opinions and discriminate against them because of that. | | | However, I am also aware that all these (except possibly Baha'is) believe that they are Muslim, even when they know that "mainstream" Muslims don't agree. |
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| | Sinan becomes leader of nizaris in syria and sends out assassins [high on hashish,could be myth ] to kill enemies Christian and muslim alike, make several atempts on Saladins life and kill many crusader leaders. | | | Jun 18 2005, 07:37 PM information about assassins, an Islamic sect who were known as the Nizaris. | | | Another branch of nizaris establish themselves in Syria. |
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http://www.simaqianstudio.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/lofiversion/t1547.html
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| | The history of the Nizaris begins with Hasan-i Sabbah, who seized the key fortress of Alamut, south of the Caspian in A.D. Their downfall in Iran and in Syria was effected by the Monguls in 1256 and 1258, and the Mamluk Sultan Baybars deal the Assassins of Syria a final blow in 1272. | | | The name given in medieval times by Europeans to the followers of the Nizari branch of the Isma'iliyya sect of Shi'ism. | | | Disputed successions in the 12th century meant that the Assassins largely disappeared, but today there are still supporters of rival claimants: the Nizaris who support the claims of Nizar; and the Tayyibis who support Tayyib. |
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| | Moreover, Sabbah was known as Sayyidna ('master') among his devotees at Alamut. | | | A competing explanation comes from a historical figure who lived after Sabbah and developed a following based on the corruption some of the Nizari master's teachings, resulting in a retroactive misattribution of his words and actions to Sabbah himself. | | | The most obvious is that the Isma'ilis never referred to themselves as "assassins"; other groups used the terms as epithets toward the Nizaris and the efforts of many scholars to accurately identify the term's etymology have met with little success. |
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| | ► » Nizaris, Assassins, Ismailis - online book |
| | The Nizaris, known in the West as the Assassins, were a mediaeval | | | Iranian sect who also came into contact with the Crusaders in Syria. | | | ► » Nizaris, Assassins, Ismailis - online book |
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| | Firstly, each group finds it difficult to put up together; the Nizaris and the Yemenis find it awkward to live congenially within and between each other's groupings due to the very nature of the heterogeneity of tribal and/or family groupings. | | | The population is now divided into seven ("asba") tribal units; each unit contains tribes and clans compatible with each other; broadly, there are four groups of Nizaris and three of Yemenis making up the seven individual units. | | | The Nizaris are settled on the western side of Kufa, the Yemenis on the eastern side (according to lots drawn by arrows, as was customary then in chance decisions); between the two areas, is to be built a mosque, and this adjoins to the governor's palace and the treasury. |
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| | True their uberness in melee vs other archers as well as being to hold their own against light cav is cool, but does anybody use Nizari over the more conventional archer? | | | If you are refering on strats on how to make some good battles, find your answers in the pinned FAQ in this section and in Battle planning section. | | | 05-16-2004, 11:57 AM Nizaris are great in the desert, and decent archers, but generally I think the cost is not worth it. |
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| | At the same time, within the crusading-culture of a pre- and early-modern Europe, the Syrian and Persian Nizaris took shape as Muslim mercenaries-cum-fanatics who murdered their victims while high on opium or hashish. | | | If this propagandist concoction of a 'stoned' assassin fails to fit the complex reality of the discipline and training required for committing what was always an explicitly political act, the popular notion of Nizaris as a community of killers also denies their rich, multivalent culture. | | | So, it is desire for alcohol not hashish that helped motivate the Assassins. |
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http://www.geocities.com/baalzephon999/HassanISabbah.html
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| | Blog O' Death: January 2005 |
| | The very word assassin was created as a byproduct of a medieval group of Muslim killers known as the Nizaris. | | | As legend has it, their leader, known simply as the "Old Man of the Mountain", would kidnap potential recruits, drug them with a potion made primarily from Hashish, and transport them to an earthly recreation of the Muslim paradise, replete with divans, belly dancers, and bunches of grapes. | | | It is a brutal, ruthless misogynist control mechanism in which a few prosper at the expense of many. |
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http://gmlogmd.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_gmlogmd_archive.html
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| | Interview with Jonah Blank, author of Mullahs on the Mainframe |
| | As Ismaili Shi‘a, they regard the dai as the touchstone for guidance in all aspects of life (the other branch of Ismaili Shi‘ism, the Nizaris, look to the Aga Khan for similar guidance). | | | Due to the dai's crucial importance, Bohras have eagerly pounced on each new generation of communications technology—from fax to email to digital cellphones—to maintain close contact with the dawat (the Bohra clergy). |
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