Slovenia. "... I divide humanity into two fundamentally different categories: a handful of people who know what the realities are and the enormous majority who do not. "At the end of the 11th century, entrenched in his citadel overlooking the plain, the great master Hassan Ibn Sabbâh led a holy war in Iran. Starting from almost nothing, with no army, no land and no support at court, he ended up dominating the world. A millennium later, the manipulation of the masses, as he put it into practice, continues to shake modern empires. A blend of adventure and political philosophy, Alamut evokes the violence of the plots of the time only to return to the crucial problems of modern civilizations.