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Rashid al-Din Sinan: The first "Old Man of the Mountain".
Rashid ad-Din Sinan
Leader of the Nizari Ismaili state from 1162 to 1193
Rashid al-Din Sinan (Arabic: راشد الدين سنانRāshid ad-Dīn Sinān; 1131/1135 – 1193) also known as the Old Man of the Mountain (Arabic: شيخ الجبلSheikh al-Jabal; Latin: Vetulus de Montanis),[1][2] was an Arab Muslim missionary (dāʿī)[3] who served as the leader of the Nizari Ismaili state and the Order of Assassins from 1162 until his death in 1193.
An adherent of Nizari Ismailism, a branch of Shia Islam, he was a prominent figure during the Crusades.
Biography
Early life and education
Rashid ad-Din Sinan was born between the years 1131 and 1135 in Basra, southern Iraq, to a prosperous family.
According to his autobiography, of which only fragments survive, Rashid came to Alamut, the fortress headquarters of the Assassins, as a youth after an argument with his brothers, and received the typical Assassin training.
In 1162, the sect's leader Ḥassan ʿAlā Dhikrihi'