Commenting on a dream of Wolfgang Pauli Jung stated that the road to Emmaus appearance was similar to Krishna and Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, and to Moses and El-Khidr in Sura 18 of the Koran.
During the mid-12th century the Assassins captured or acquired several fortresses in the Nusayriyah Mountain Range in coastal Syria, including Masyaf, Rusafa, al-Kahf, al-Qadmus, Khawabi, Sarmin, Quliya, Ulayqa, Maniqa, Abu Qubays and Jabal al-Summaq.