Jubair al Hakim
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- "Your deed is done... and so am I."
- ―Jubair falling to Altaïr's blade.[src]
Jubair al Hakim 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
- "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."
- ―Some of Jubair's last words[src]
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. Unknown to many, Jubair secretly became a Templar at some point in his life along with nine other Templars who aided in guarding the Piece of Eden's secret.
Death
- 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 should know the answer. Educate them, teach them right from wrong. It must be knowledge that frees them, not force."
- —Altaïr and Jubair before his death.[src]
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, a man began to argue with Jubair, claiming the scripts to be gifts, not curses, Jubair asked the man if he truly loved his books, which the scholar responded that he did.
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 across the city. Altaï 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, after his last dying breath, his life was at an end and Jubair was no more.
Personality and characteristics
Jubair believed that knowledge in scripture was an evil thing because he believes that people are too dependent on scripture. Rather than seeking knowledge, Jubair and his men hunted down and burned all scripture within Damascus, knowing that such texts were the source of all evil. He believed himself to be a source of knowledge and had a sense that it was supposed "ancient scrolls" that started King Richard and Saladin's war. He usually wore robes of a crimson, gray and tint of yellow color, he wore a leather belt along with a small pouch and his robes had a hood which ascended up his neck and down to the tip of his forehead. His hood hid his hair and he was of a tall stature.
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 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 may be inspired on the Arab-Spanish geographer, traveler, and poet Ibn Jubayr.
- Like Talal and Sibrand, vigilantes will stop him when he flees.
- The name "Jubair" means "The forced one", which may refer to his actions through force. In Arabic and "Al Hakim" means "The wise one".
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