Hasan-i-Sabah

This publication includes the first English translation of the 1310 biography of Hasan-i-Sabah by Rashid al-Din:  The Biography of Our Master  ( Sar-Guzasht-i-Sayyidna ) Hasan-i-Sabah was born in northern Persia around 1050 and died in 1124. He was an Ismaili missionary (or  dai ) who founded the Nizari Ismailis after the usurpation of the Fatimid Imamate by the military dictator of Egypt. It may be said that Hasan founded and operated the world’s most successful mystical sec