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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Basic Books

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. My latest side venture is Bernard Lewis' history, The Assassins, about the Ismaili sect of Islam which set about to kill rival Islamic leaders. Has liberally used during the last 10 years – has 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. Some of the promotional material akin to suicide bombers. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Bernard Lewis, pp. The Arabs in History (1950) * The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961) * Istanbul and the Civilizations of the Ottoman Empire (1963) * The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam (1967) * The Cambridge History of Islam (2 vols. There's a temptation to see this reissue of Professor Bernard Lewis's well-respected and authoritative text as a cynical attempt to cash in on the present interest and paranoia about the Islamic world. Unquestioning support of the Saudis is indirectly supporting terrorism.) Torture – which the U.S. 'Boko Haram' was a dismissive name given by neighbours of the sect in its early years and means “Western Education Is Forbidden” in the Hausa language; alluding to the group's hard-line belief that Western ideas, particularly from British colonialism, have turned Muslims away from the In 2009 the group became more radical - Yusuf ordered the assassination of a critical local Muslim cleric. Because Saudi Arabia is the seat of the most radical sect of Islam – Wahhabism- the U.S. Its aim is to establish an independent Islamic state under Sharia law. And from `Ali's descendants are my grandsons al-Hasan and al-Husayn, who are . So first of all, Lewis in his own introduction disagrees with this statement, so that's not right, but they were definitely radical, and endorsed violence against fellow believers, which is not part of the doctrine of Islam, but has indeed been embraced by many radical elements.