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The Origins | Assassins: Beyond the Legend Episode 1

Dr Farhad Daftary, the former Co-Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, sits with Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor to discuss the origins of these legends and the reality of Medieval Ismailis. To its credit, the Western fascination with assassins often turns into historical curiosity, with monumental research from Marshall Hodgson, Wladimir Ivanow, and Bernard Lewis. The Institute of Ismaili Studies has already dedicated two works to the topic — Farhad Daftary’s Assassin Legends and Peter Willey’s Eagle’s Nest, as well as references found in Shayesteh Ghofrani’s Ismailis in Iran, Miklós Sárközy’s The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers, and the Secondary Curriculum’s Encounters in Muslim History. Recently, the legends have taken on a renewed currency in digital media, primarily through the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise (Ubisoft, 2007 onward) and TV shows like Awakening: The Great Seljuk and Saladin: Conqueror of Jerusalem (Akli Film, 2020 and 2022 respectively) and the most recent The Assassins (Synergy, 2024). IIS hopes to address this in turn with the production of a multi-part, multilingual series of conversations addressing the Assassin Legends.