שאלה | Question: What is the basis for the connection between the “Hashish Brotherhood” and hashish?

Question: What is the basis for the connection between the “Hashish Brotherhood” and hashish?

שאלה #193529

		A) A depiction of the “Old Man” giving them a drink made from hashish
		B) Marco Polo’s description matches people who made hashish
		C) A book written by an Egyptian soldier, describing how he saw the Brotherhood take hashish
		D) Sunni sources that referred to the Brotherhood as “Hashishin,” as a derogatory label

Explanation: The lectures emphasize that the hashish link rests mainly on polemical Sunni sources that used Hashishiyyin/Hashishin as a term of abuse, later taken up and reinterpreted by European writers (not on direct evidence of systematic hashish use). (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy, “de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin”; also in Ram, Hashishophobia.)