Some Notes about Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥasan III – and his Contacts with the Abbasids
Some Notes about Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥasan III – and his Contacts with the Abbasids

Summary/Abstract: This paper addresses the political relations of the Nizārī Ismā ʿī lī state at the beginning of the13th century AD during the rule of Ḥasan III (1210–1221). As for the religious-political profile of this Imam, it appears that he had a conscious, cautious and first of all pragmatist approachrather than a pro-Sunni religious attitude on behalf of the Nizārī Ismā ʿī lī leadership who alwayssought to counterbalance major powers politically. Nizārī relations held with the Ildigüzids and Abbasids in their anti-Khwarizmian stance very much helped the Nizārīs to reach the zenith of their power in the early thirteenth century. Somewhat later the same flexible policy of Ḥasan III can be detected in his diplomatic contacts with the emerging Mongol world-empire.

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