‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’: The portrayal of the Nizari Isma’ilis in the Assassin’s Creed game series

Frank Bosman

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Abstract

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed does a remarkable – though not flawless – job in presenting a well-balanced game narrative, which incorporates not only a historically justified representation of the Nizari Isma’ilis, but also implicitly corrects one of the most famous Western legends about the so-called ‘Assassins’. In doing so, Ubisoft succeeds (at least partially) in discarding the stereotypical representation of Muslims/Arabs associated with Western orientalism, at the cost, however, of a multi-leveled but functionalistic view on the phenomenon of religion in the video game series with regards to the Assassin and Templar fractions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6-26
JournalHeidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet
Volume10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2016

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Bosman, Frank. / ‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’ : The portrayal of the Nizari Isma’ilis in the Assassin’s Creed game series. In: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 2016 ; Vol. 10. pp. 6-26.
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‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’ : The portrayal of the Nizari Isma’ilis in the Assassin’s Creed game series. / Bosman, Frank.

In: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, Vol. 10, 04.2016, p. 6-26.

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Bosman F. ‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’: The portrayal of the Nizari Isma’ilis in the Assassin’s Creed game series. Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 2016 Apr;10:6-26. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.rel.23546

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