Jubair al Hakim was a character in Ubisoft's action-adventure Assassin Creed, the Chief Scholar of Damascus, and part of the Templar Order. Warped by the Templar ideology, Jubair began hunting down and incinerating all sources of written knowledge within Damascus, believing the documents to be the source of evil and hatred in the world. He was assassinated by Altair near the Madrasah Al-Kallāsah after killing a fellow scholar for believing that books are a gift, not a curse.

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