The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources

by Freiherr von Joseph Hammer-Purgstall

[265] Aali’s Historical Sketches. Imp. Lib. Vienna. No. 115.

[266] Dar-es-selam, the house of peace. Wadi-es-selam, the valley of peace. Medenet-es-selam, the city of peace. Burj ol evlia, castle of the holy. Sevra, oblique.

[267] Jehannuma, p. 459.

[268] Ibid, p. 479, 480.

[269] Dar-es-shedshret.

[270] A. D. 918; A. H. 306.

[271] There is a more circumstantial detail in Abulfeda, Part II. p. 332, and Jehannuma, pp. 459 and 478, and in the Gulsheni Khulifa and Lari, than in Gibbon, c. LII.

[272] The Persian Damdama, as well as the Arabic Thanthana, and the Latin Tinnitus, are onomatopœias of this musical sound.

[273] Mirkhond, Wassaf, Gulsheni Khulifa.

[274] Deguignes, Part II. p.197, and Abulfeda, ad. ann. 449.