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Our 27th Imam Ruknuddin Khurshah was the last Imam to reign in Alamut. He ascended to the Masnad of Imamat in 653 A.H. after the assassination of his father Imam Alauddin Muhammad. The Imamat of Ruknuddin Khurshah lasted only one year. He was killed by treachery and the Ismaili reign in Alamut ended after a period of 171 years.
Imamate of Imam Ruknuddin Khairshah - 1255-1256AD
Imam Ruknuddin Khairshah reigned as Imam of the Time for a period of one to two years before being murdered by the Mongols. This event marks the end of the Alamut period. The Mongols not only managed to destroy the entire Ismaili State (the scientific instruments, observatories, libraries, and thousands of houses and buildings), but were also responsible for the death of 80,000 Ismailis (Aziz, 1974).
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