Words used by the Assamites and their translation:
| Alamut | Originally, the name of the Assamites' castle stronghold. Since the Treaty of Tyre, however, it has come to refer to the current location of the Master and Elders of the clan |
| Amr | The chief magician of the clan; one of the du'at |
| Antitribu | The group of Assamites who escaped the Curse and allied themselves with the Sabbat |
| Asabiyya | The Assamite tradition of loyalty to the clan and to other clan members |
| Caliph | The military leader of the clan; one of the du'at |
| Castellan | An Assamite in charge of a location or group of Assamites away from Alamut |
| The Curse | The Treaty of Tyre and the accompanying Tremere ritual which made the Kindred blood poisonous to the Assamites |
| Du'at | The three senior members of the clan - the caliph, the vizier and the amr - who are the Master's closest advisors |
| End | Used as a verb by the Assamites. To end a kafir is to assassinate her |
| En'esh | The First City, known to other Kindred as Enoch, Uniech, Enkil or by various other names |
| Fida'i | The title given to newly embraced Assamites, who are serving a seven-year apprenticeship at Alamut |
| Haqim | The ancestral Assamite; his name is also spelled Hachem, Hashem , A'shem and (wrongly) Hassan or Hussein by some European sources |
| Children of Haqim | The Assamite Clan |
| Heartblood | The collected blood of fallen Assamites, kept at Alamut and used in the clan's most holy rituals |
| Hijra | "Emigration"; the current state of the clan as it establishes new power bases and works to free itself from the Curse |
| Ikhwan | The Assamite tradition of brotherhood |
| Jihad | An Arabic term applied to any holy war. Assamites use the word to describe their legendary task of destroying all other vampires, and, by extinction, to refer to their whole birthright and position within Kindred society. Not to be confused with the Kindred term Jyhad, which refers to the machinations of the Antediluvians against one another |
| Hadd | The Assamite tradition of vengeance |
| Kafir | Literally "infidels"; the Assamites apply this term to non-Assamite Kindred |
| Khabar | Literally "tradition"; the Assamite belief system and code of honor |
| Khayyin | Caine, the first vampire |
| Kufr | An Islamic term for heresy, unbelief and ingratitude. The Assamites use the word to refer to the principles of the Camarilla |
| Munim | The Assamite tradition of faith |
| Munafiqun | Literally "hypocrites", this is an Assamite nickname for the Camarilla |
| Muruwa | The Assamite code of honor |
| The Old Man | Also known as the Old Man of the Mountain, the Master of the clan |
| Path of Blood | Diablerie; the drinking of the blood of older vampires to gain their power |
| Rafiq | "Comrade(s)"; the Assamites' word for themselves |
| Shahid | An Arabic word for a religious martyr. Assamites tricked to their doom by false contracts are known by this title. Some extreme militants use this term for the whole clan, in reference to the Curse |
| Silsila | The elders and other respected individuals of the clan, who act as a priesthood for the Path of Blood and as Castellans for bases away from Alamut |
| Tajdid | "Revival"; the research program dedicated to freeing the Assamites from the Curse |
| Treaty of Tyre | The agreement between the Camarilla and the Assamites concluded in 1522, whereby the Assamites surrendered the ability to commit diablerie |
| Umma | The Assamite tradition of community. The word also refers to the hoped-for reconciliation of clan and antitribu |
| The Unconquered | The name by which the Assamite antitribu call themselves |
| Vizier | The chief scholar of the clan; one of the du'at |
