The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam



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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam Bernard Lewis ebook
ISBN: 0465004989, 9780465004980
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: epub
Page: 176


Nigeria: Boko Haram Radical Muslim Sect Grows More Dangerous Jon Gambrell Assassins from the group routinely kill government officials, police officers, soldiers in the region and clerics who speak out against the group. Client states, receiving military and other support to retain power. To support Imam Mahdi's claim, Twelver Shi'as along with all other Muslim sects quote the following Hadith: "I and `Ali are the fathers of this nation; whoever knows us very well also knows Allah, and whoever denies us also denies Allah, the Unique, the Mighty. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Bernard Lewis, pp. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan's democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country's to other religions such as Christians, Hindus and Ahmedis — a sect reviled by mainstream Muslims as heretics because they believe a prophet came after Muhammad, defying a basic tenet of Islam that Muhammad was the last prophet. Unquestioning support of the Saudis is indirectly supporting terrorism.) Torture – which the U.S. And from `Ali's descendants are my grandsons al-Hasan and al-Husayn, who are . Has liberally used during the last 10 years U.S. Of course, some would say that the American policy of assassination – especially using drone strikes on people whose identity isn't even known – is a form of terrorism. Because Saudi Arabia is the seat of the most radical sect of Islam – Wahhabism- the U.S. Findlay Dunachie Although their first assassination took place in 1092, the Muslim sect that took this up as a matter of policy had a long lineage going back almost the origins of Islam. A radical sect in Islam: 1090-1273. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, New York: Octogon Books, 1980. The Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismailis against the Islamic World, 's-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1955.

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