The Hashshashin (also Hashishin), or [Assass In]-s were a religious sect (often refered to as a cult) of Ismaili Muslims (IsLam) from the Nizari sub-sect with a militant basis, thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries as a mystic [Secret Society] specializing in terrorising the Abbasid elite with fearlessly executed, politically motivated assassinations (the word "assassin" is generally thought to derive from their name). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashishin

• name commonly thought to derive from "[Hash Eater]-s", but page disputes that practice.

followers of [Hassan I Sabbah] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_I_Sabbah

• Hassan i Sabbah X (the tenth in the line) appears as a SuFi mystic, alias Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stuart, in the Schrodingers Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.

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