Saladin and the Assassins

^{page 239 note 1} Abū āma, ii, 23–4 (= Goergens, 27–8). Repeated in Sibṭ, 234. Cf. Defrémery, 29–30.

^{page 239 note 2} Ibn Wāṣil otherwise follows fairly closely on ‘Imād ad-Dīn, with some variants. His text begins as follows:—

It will be noted that here umārtakīn is amīr of Ṣahyūn.

^{page 239 note 3} The Bustān confuses the two attempts.

^{page 240 note 1} Precise dates for this and the preceding are given only by ‘Imād ad-Dīn (apud Abū āma) and Ibn Wāṣil. De Sacy, following a different text of Abū āma, says Friday 19th Ramaḍān. According to Ibn Wāṣil, Saladin set out from Aleppo on 10th Muḥarram (cf. Maqrīzī, , Sulūk, Cairo, 1934, i, 62).

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^{page 241 note 2} Cf. Lewis, , ‘Sources’, 489.

^{page 241 note 3} On the Nubuwīya see Thorning, H., Beiträge zur Kenntnis des islamischen Vereinswesens, Türkische Bibliothek, vol. 16, Berlin, 1913, 212–13, and Taeschner, F., ‘Das Futuwwa-Rittertum des islamischen Mittelalters’, in Beiträge zur Arabistik, Semitistik und Islamwissenschaft, Leipzig, 1944, 352, n. 17, where further references are given.

^{page 241 note 4} Thus the MS. The Jewett version says, absurdly, 13,000 Ismā'īlī leaders—

^{page 241 note 5} p. 208. MS. fol. 181a. The form in the Jewett text is an obvious error for as in the MS.

^{page 241 note 6} pp. 249–250 (translation 259–260). Ibn Jubair, writing in 580 A.H., speaks of these events as having taken place ‘eight years ago’.

^{page 241 note 7} fol. 146.

^{page 241 note 8} Guyard 97 and 149. In this version the Ismā'īlīs are of course victorious.

^{page 242 note 1} Gibb, H. A. R., ‘The Achievement of Saladin’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 35, 1952, 44–60. On the humiliation of the Ismā'īlīs at this time see Abū āma, i, 197.

^{page 242 note 2} Abū āma, i, 221.

^{page 242 note 3} Cf. Stern, S. M., ‘The Epistle of the Fatimid Caliph al-Āmir’. JRAS., 1950, 20–31.

^{page 243 note 1} Guyard, , 77 ff. and 137 ff.

^{page 243 note 2} Cf. Laoust, H., Essai sur les doctrines societies et politiques de Taḳī-d-Dīn Aḥmad b. Taimīya, Cairo, 1939, 124–5, 266–7, for such accusations in Abū Firās's time.

^{page 243 note 3} Lewis, , ‘Three Biographies’, 344. One of these stories, that of the threatening letter, is well known from Ibn allikān, Wafayāt al-A'yān, Cairo, 1882, ii, 115–6 (= de Slane, M., Biographical Dictionary, Paris, 1842–1871, iii, 339–341), cf. Lewis, , ‘Sources’, 487.

^{page 243 note 4} Lewis, , ‘Three Biographies’, 341. Kamāl ad-Dīn quotes a letter of condolence from Sinān to Sābiq ad-Dīn ‘Ammār ibn ad-Dāya, lord of aizar, on the death of his brother ams ad-Dīn, lord of Qal'at Ja'bar.

^{page 244 note 1} A source quoted by Kamāl ad-Dīn in the Bu ya (Lewis, , ‘Three Biographies’, 343) mentions a third attempt on Saladin, in Damascus. But this does not appear to be mentioned by the other authorities.

^{page 244 note 2} Kamāl ad-Dīn, MS. fol. 193b ff. (= Blochet, , iv, 147–8); cf. Lewis, , ‘Three Biographies’, 338; Quatremère, 354–5; Defrémery, 8–9.

^{page 244 note 3} Abū āma, i, 274–5; Ibn al-Aīr, xi, 294–5; Kamāl ad-Dīn, MS. fol. 193b ff. (= Blochet, iv, 148–9); Bustān, 142; Sibṭ, 219; Ibn Wāṣil, 200–1, Ibn addād, fol. 1286; cf. Quatremère, 355–6; Defrémery, 20–23.

^{page 244 note 4} Kamāl ad-Dīn, MS., fol. 196; Abū āma, ii, 16 (= Goergens, 22); cf. Quatremère, 356–7, Defrémery, 24–5.

^{page 244 note 5} Bahā; ad-Dīn 165; Abū āma ii, 196 (= Goergens, 185–6); Ibn al-Aīr, xii, 51 (= Recueil ii, 58–9); Bar-Hebraeus, 339; 'Imād ad-Dīn, Fatḥ) 420–2; Sibṭ, 269; Ibn Wāṣil, 396–7; Quatremère, 357; Defrémery, 25–30; Lewis, , ‘Sources’, 487–8.

^{page 244 note 6} Abū āma, ii, 203; Defrémery, 29.