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Turning point · The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
Alamut surrenders
1256 — The Assassins’ mountain fortresses — which had defied the Seljuks for 150 years and sent killers against Mongol princes — are reduced one by one by Hülegü’s siege train. The historian Juvaini, in Mongol service, begs leave to save books from Alamut’s library as it burns.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Hammer on Islam in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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