Samuel Lyde

The Asian Mystery Samuel Lyde

The Asian Mystery was written from direct personal experience and scholarly research by Reverend Samuel Lyde, after spending considerable time living among the people of the mountainous regions of Syria, the remnants of the Nizari Ismaili sect also known as the Assassins. Reverend Lyde gives extensive background information as to their origins and current lifestyle, as well as a passing note to their cultural context and interacting sects such as the Druze. This volume was published in 1860, and in 2010 was manually edited and corrected from various OCR documents and text sources to produce a work faithful to the original work as Reverend Lyde created it.