The cannabis and the Islam (1)
As of century V, the hemp comprises of the prescriptions of the Arab doctors and, in century XII, it begins to exert influences in some mystical orders of Persia. In 1155 it appears the hashish.
In individual to sufís (Muslim priests mystical), that used it in their complicated ritual dances to reach the éxtasis (to obtain to the divine and inner revelation and the communication with Wing).
Many studies reveal that the misticismo of the sufíes priests comes from the followers of Zarathustra who survived the Muslim conquest which they took place between centuries VII and VIII that underwent the conversion to the Islam.
Hemp was call by Arabs hashish, which it means grass and it was indeed this grass the one that gave name to one of the most famous and bloodthirsty sects of hashishins, of that derives the term from assassin.
Marco Polo speaks in his stories of the "haschi-Chinese"; On century XI the sheik al-Djebel Hassan Ibn Al-Sabbah founds the order of haschischins, islamita connection and with deep sufíes influences that will subsist until being exterminated by mongoles.
In 1090 Hassan will seize of the strength of the Alamut to the northwest of Qazwin, strategically located in an extension of the chain of Alburz (it is an authentic nest of eagles) and he will turn it his guarida; soon he makes raids in several directions that will weave a mesh with other strengths that it will conquer until his death in 1124.
The "assassins" made use of the dagger and reduced the murder in an art, developed the agnosticism, Hassan illuminated them about the superficiality of the prophets and he animated them not to believe in anything and to dare to everything.
Haschischins received an abundant provision of hashish before starting off for the combat, and they were distinguished in the Crossed ones by its fierceness; king Luis of France was on the verge of perishing at the hands of members of the sect.
She was a piramidal organization, underneath the Great Master were the great priores, each one in a particular district and in the plus under the scale they were those that were ready to execute any thing that Amo requested ("fidais").
In year 1092 the murder of the vizier of the sultanato of Saljug took place, Nizam-al-Mulk, by "fidai" masked like a sufí; it was a series of murders that plunged the Muslim world in the terror.
In 1150 the "assassins" solidly they are installed in Syria under the direction of its great master Rashid al-DIN al-Sinan (who will die in 1192), called by crossed "the Old one of the Mountain"; that they will subsist until being exterminated by mongoles, indeed by Hulagu that along with destroyed the califato of the strengths in 1256 its castles in Persia.
After the capture of Masyad in 1260 by mongoles, sultán of Mamluk Baybars in 1272 gave the final blow them to the Syria assassins. Model for European orders like teutones or templarios, was distinguished by their fierceness.
This group maintained dominion on vast territories of Syria and Iran, from which they were expelled.
