1. Mawlana Hazar Imam has remarked that Ismaili Centres have come to be seen as "Ambassadorial buildings, which today reflect and illustrate much of what the Shia Ismaili community represents." These centres serve as a bridge between the Ismaili community and the communities where Ismailis live

2. The Ambassadorial Role of the Ismaili Centres

3. The Assassins were a radical offshoot of Shiite Islam called Ismailis

4. The local Ismailis have tarred the roads, and paved the streets for their believers, without damaging the landscape.

5. When the Ismaili Shia Fatimids conquered Egypt in 973, they began to appoint the sharifs of Mecca from the descendants of Ja'far al-Musawi.

6. 2. Assassin A member of a militant subgroup of Ismailis that in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries carried out political Assassinations directed especially against Seljuk rule.

7. Assassin (n.) 1530s (in Anglo-Latin from mid-13c.), via medieval French and Italian Assissini, Assassini, from Arabic hashīshīn (12c.), an Arabic nickname, variously explained, for the Nizari Ismaili sect in the Middle East during the Crusades, plural of hashishiyy, from the source of hashish (q.v.).