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Article: Medieval castles in the Middle East.(Eagle's Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria)(Book review)
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- Architectural Science Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Eagle's Nest -- Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria, by Peter Willey. I. B. Tauris Publishers, London, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (our copy from Palgrave Macmillan, 627 Chapel Street, South Yarra VIC 3141). 321 pp., ill., index. Price: $A 80.00.
The Ismaili Muslims of the Middle Ages became notorious as a result of the publication of The Travels of Marco Polo, which became a best-seller in its time. In it he describes 'The Grand Master of the Assassins", his lofty castle at Alamut [in Iran, just south of the Caspian Seal] and his "Garden of Paradise". His story was that Hassan Sabah, who lived in a remote and ...