HW: Francis Bacon?

[J Strobridge]

William Duffy writes:

> > mentioned) Hassan I Sabha. So there's another HW/Burrough's connection...I
> > don't think anyone mentioned that one yet. Calvert may have
> > picked all this stuff
> > up from reading Burroughs...
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> I heard an interview with Calvert on an Australian radio station many,
> many years ago (for all you Australians, it was called DoubleJ at the
> time). In the interview he spoke of the meaning of the title Hassan I
> Sabha. I don't remember the exact details, but he said something about
> it being old slang for assassin.
> Although it is possible he found it in Burroughs, it is also an
> established phrase in some parts of the world.



just in case this hasn't been posted yet:

from an archive file:

*  Hassan I Sahba - leader of mediaeval Moslem sect known as the Hashishim, or
*  "assassins", who used hashish to induce an ecstatic state;

An Ismaili Shiite grouping founded in the late 11th Century.  Their
headquarters was in the virtually impregnable castle of Alamut in the
Elburz Mountains in Iran they also spread to Syria in the Ansariyya
Mountains where they caused big problems for both the crusaders and
Saladin.  There is a story of them trying to impress someone (French
Crusaders I believe) by lining up the faithfull on the walls of the castle
and ordering them to jump.  The sect was dissolved inthe mid 13th C by the
Mongols.


jill

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