<Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 891.8 / 435 22 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PG1918. B33 A7813 2004 </Td> </Tr> <P> Alamut is a novel by Vladimir Bartol, first published in 1938 in Slovenian, dealing with the story of Hassan - i Sabbah and the Hashshashin, and named after their Alamut fortress . </P> <P> Bartol first started to conceive the novel in the early 1930s, when he lived in Paris . In the French capital, he met with the Slovene literary critic Josip Vidmar, who introduced him to the story of Hassan - i Sabbah . A further stimulation for the novel came from the assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia perpetrated by Croatian and Bulgarian radical nationalists, on the alleged commission of the Italian Fascist government . When it was originally published, the novel was sarcastically dedicated to Benito Mussolini . </P>

Assassin's nothing is true everything is permitted