Al-Hashishiya The World of the Assassins

Hassan as-Sabbah was born in 1044 in Qum, in Iran, a few kilometres from the city of Ravy, which would become Tehran. An intelligence greater and eager for knowledge, he threw himself at heart lost in reading at the expense of his father who wanted to make a cloth merchant.
Sent in a madrasa in Ravy, where he made the acquaintance of Omar Khayyam, the future Persian poet, who dedicated him a great friendship, and Abd el-Kassim, who will become the Great Vizier Nizam el-Mulk, who him will tes...