High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1092
Assassination of Nizam al-Mulk
October 14, 1092
The Seljuk vizier, travelling from Isfahan to Baghdad, was stabbed by a disguised Nizari fedayi on the road. His murder, the first sensational act of Hassan-i Sabbah's new campaign, opened a crisis of succession in the Seljuk empire. His Siyasatnama survived him as a classic of Persian statecraft. The assassination inaugurated a century of targeted political killings that gave the word assassin to European languages.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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