Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . rani iiriiiintimiiiiiimiiiimiii|iiiini nil.,., i .........mil i iiiiimnir. a Omar Khayyam graced and fell. After many mishaps and wan-derings, Hasan became the head of the Persiansect of the Ismailians,—a party of fanatics whohad long murmured in obscurity, but rose to anevil eminence under the guidance of his strongand evil will. In a. d. 1090, he seized the castleof Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which liesin the mountainous tract south of the CaspianSea; and it was from this mountain home he ob-tained that evil celebrity among t
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . rani iiriiiintimiiiiiimiiiimiii|iiiini nil.,., i .........mil i iiiiimnir. a Omar Khayyam graced and fell. After many mishaps and wan-derings, Hasan became the head of the Persiansect of the Ismailians,—a party of fanatics whohad long murmured in obscurity, but rose to anevil eminence under the guidance of his strongand evil will. In a. d. 1090, he seized the castleof Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which liesin the mountainous tract south of the CaspianSea; and it was from this mountain home he ob-tained that evil celebrity among the Crusaders asthe OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS, andspread terror through the Mohammedan world;and it is yet disputed whether the word Assassin,which they have left in the language of modernEurope as their dark memorial, is derived fromthe hashish, or opiate of hemp-leaves (the Indianbhang), with which they maddened themselves tothe sullen pitch of oriental desperation, or fromthe name of the founder of the dynasty, whom we
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