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A Mongol-Ismâ‘îlî Alliance?: Thoughts on the Mongols and Assassins*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2004

Timothy May
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The Mongols' relationship with the Ismâ'îlîs or Assassins has generally been considered in terms of their destruction of the Ismâ'îlî power in Northern Iran under Hülegü. While this was certainly the denouement of their relationship, the Mongols and the so-called Assassins have a much longer common history. Indeed, they often shared mutual enemies in the person of the Khwarazmshah Muhammad, and then of his son, Jalâl al-Dîn. This article, thus, examines the pattern of the Mongol-Ismâ'îlî relationship from their first contact to the severing of ties, and discusses whether the Mongols established an alliance with the Assassins.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , November 2004 , pp. 231 - 239
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2004

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank David O. Morgan of the University of Wisconsin and Ron Sela of Indiana University for their comments on previous drafts of this article. In addition, I would like to thank those in the audience who commented or asked questions when I presented this paper at the Third Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 17–20, 2002. Any errors, of course, remain my own.

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* I would like to thank David O. Morgan of the University of Wisconsin and Ron Sela of Indiana University for their comments on previous drafts of this article. In addition, I would like to thank those in the audience who commented or asked questions when I presented this paper at the Third Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 17–20, 2002. Any errors, of course, remain my own.