Alamut period

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The Alamut period was a medieval era in Ismaili Shia history marked by the Nizari Ismaili state centered at the mountain fortress of Alamut in northern Iran, known for its distinctive religious thought, strategic fortifications, and resistance to Sunni Seljuk and later Mongol powers.

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instanceOf era in Ismaili history
historical period
medieval period
associatedWithDoctrine Imamate of the Nizari Ismaili imam
esoteric interpretation of Islam
ta’wil (esoteric exegesis)
associatedWithEvent split between Nizari and Musta‘li Ismailis
culturalActivity copying and preserving manuscripts
philosophical and theological study
endDate 1256
endWithEvent Mongol destruction of Alamut fortress
hasCenter Alamut fortress
linked to: Alamut
hasCenterRegion northern Iran
hasCoreState Nizari Ismaili state
hasFortress Alamut
Girdkuh
Lambsar
Meymun-Diz
hasFortressNetwork fortresses in Syria
fortresses in northern Iran
hasLeader Hasan II
Hasan-i Sabbah
linked to: Hassan i Sabbah

Kiya Buzurg-Ummid
Muhammad ibn Buzurg-Ummid
Nur al-Din Muhammad II
Rukn al-Din Khurshah
hasReputationInSources associated with the so-called Assassins in Western sources
historicalContext medieval Islamic world
knownFor distinctive Ismaili religious thought
intellectual and doctrinal developments
network of mountain fortresses
resistance to Mongol power
resistance to Seljuk power
use of strategic assassination
languageOfAdministration Persian
languageOfScholarship Arabic
Persian
locatedIn Alborz Mountains
linked to: Elburz Mountains

Daylam region
linked to: Daylam
opposedBy Abbasid Caliphate
Mongol Empire
Seljuk Empire
partOf Ismaili Shia history
Nizari Ismaili history
politicalForm Nizari Ismaili state
theocratic leadership
precedes post-Alamut period of Nizari Ismaili dispersion
religiousTradition Ismaili Shia Islam
linked to: Ismaili Shia

Nizari Ismailism
linked to: Ismaili Shia
startDate 1090
startWithEvent seizure of Alamut fortress by Hasan-i Sabbah

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Ismaili Shia associatedWith Alamut period