Jubair al Hakim

"Your deed is done... and so am I."

―Jubair falling to Altaïr's blade.

Jubair al Hakim (Arabic: جبير الحكیم)was one of the nine men Al Mualim ordered the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to assassinate. He was found in the middle district of Damascus.

Biography

The Learned Scholar

Also known as the head of The Illuminated, Jubair al Hakim was the Chief Scholar of Damascus. However, his view of literature seemed to have become somewhat skewed. Rather than seeking knowledge, The Illuminated hunted down and burned all sources of written knowledge within Damascus, believing that such documents were the source of evils, such as the war between the Saracens and the Crusaders.

Jubair al Hakim had disdain for the works of many writers such as Plato and Socrates. He was a ruthless man, with little tolerance towards any who opposed him. He believed that the illness of learning had to be eliminated, because it simply fixed people, preventing them from finding their true calling.

Death

Altaïr witnessed Jubair and a few of his followers in a courtyard, adding scripts to a roaring fire. While the rest of his followers added fuel to the fire, a man began to argue with Jubair, claiming the scripts to be gifts, not curses. In a moment of rage, Jubair pushed the man onto the pile of burning scripts and watched him die. After asking the rest of his followers if they wished to join him, the head scholar set out to conduct book burnings

Altaïr overlooks Jubair and his missionaries.

across the city. Jubair was assassinated while conducting a book burning in a courtyard near the Madrasah Al-Kallāsah. Altaïr had to track down the real Jubair among dozens of his followers wearing the same uniform,before finally killing him. Jubair was the third target to die in Damascus, and the seventh or eighth overall. In his dying words, he claimed he merely sought to free people from the book that he believed made them ignorant and foolish.

Final words

Jubair: Why!? Why have you done this?!

Altaïr: Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree!

Jubair: Then what?

Altaïr: You of all people should know the answer. Educate them, teach them right from wrong. It must be knowledge that frees them, not force.

Jubair: They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naive to think otherwise. It's an illness, for which there is but one cure.

Altaïr: You're wrong, and that is why you must be put to rest.

Jubair: Am I not unlike those precious books you seek to save? A source of knowledge with which you

Jubair's life is taken.

disagree. Yet you are rather quick to steal my life.

Altaïr: A small sacrifice to save many. It is necessary.

Jubair: Is it not ancient scrolls that inspire the Crusaders, that fill Saladin and his men with a sense of righteous fury? Their texts endanger others, bring death in their wake. I too was making a small sacrifice. It matters little now. Your deed is done... and so am I.

Trivia

• Jubair al Hakim is probably inspired from the Arab-Spanish geographer, traveler, and poet Ibn Jubayr (1145 – 1217) (Arabic: ابن جبير).
• Like Talal and Sibrand, he can also be stopped by vigilantes.
• The name "Jubair" means "The forced one", which may refer to his actions through force. In Arabic and "Al Hakim" means "The wise one".
• Jubair seems to be the least aware of Altaïr's presence than any other assassination target.

Video

thumb|300px|left|Jubair's assassination.