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Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Arnaldo Teodorani
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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Source/Further reading:

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/where-did-the-word-assassin-come-from/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Tyre
https://erenow.net/postclassical/the-real-history-behind-the-templars/21.php
http://milionemarcopolo.altervista.org/Mulehet.html
https://iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/hasan-sabbah
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/who-are-the-twelve-imams-of-twelver-shia-islam.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Mustansir-Fatimid-caliph
http://www.islamicweb.com/history/hist_Seljuk.htm
https://islamichistory.org/the-seljuk-turks/
http://www.ismaili.net/histoire/history05/history576.html
https://iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/hasan-sabbah
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Templars_and_the_Assassins.html?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ

I am painfully cringing at this shameless plug, but I believe this is what the audience is expecting, and this seemed like a good place to include it. No worries, I will dismantle it later.

https://iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/hasan-sabbah
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Templars_and_the_Assassins.html?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ
https://iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/hasan-sabbah
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Templars_and_the_Assassins.html?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ
https://www.dailysabah.com/portrait/2018/04/28/nizam-al-mulk-order-of-the-country
https://iis.ac.uk/introduction-assassin-legends
https://www.desiblitz.com/content/history-kebab
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/where-did-the-word-assassin-come-from/
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/veglio-della-montagna_(Enciclopedia-Dantesca)/

Fun fact: Dante uses the concept of the assassin as an allegory for love and lust, describing how a lover will submit to the object of his/her desire like the assassin obeys to the will of the Old Man of the Mountain

https://iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/hasan-sabbah
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Templars_and_the_Assassins.html?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ
http://www.ismaili.net/histoire/history06/history607.html
https://erenow.net/postclassical/the-real-history-behind-the-templars/21.php
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3uFtzINjLAoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=assassin&f=false
http://www.ismaili.net/histoire/main.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c10oDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false