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Author's name: Vladimir Bartold Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2009 Literary classification: Novel Summary of the novel: It is one of the books I waited for a long time at the door of the Serai before it was accepted or acknowledged. It must be said that everything conspired to make Alamut—a text cursed for half a century. Alamut novel by Vladimir Bartold, translated by Fatima Al-Nasimi, published by Al-Jamal Publications as part of distinguished translated novels, including a number of historical novels and classics of world literature. About the book Alamut: In the spring of the year 1092, the route of the ancient armies, which penetrated starting from Samarkand and Bukhara to the foothills of Mount Ilbuzar north of Khorasan, passed a caravan of great importance. It left Bukhara at the beginning of snowmelt, and had nourished Valser weeks earlier. The caravan leaders waved their whips, shouting loudly to urge the exhausted animals. The only camels with humps, mules, and double-humped camels advanced in a long column, and the men of the convoy riding small horses with long hair gazed at the mountain range standing on the horizon, bored from waiting so long. We want to talk about Islamic terrorism, which they considered in their precise knowledge to be a historical phenomenon... a phenomenon that our current era has brought back with its current events... But there is more than that; one gradually notices that this novel, created by a skillful engineer, advances in a way that the methods of terror described are exactly those practiced by today's Islam... which Bartold summarized beautifully through Hassan: "Thus, sovereignty belongs to the one who makes the sultans of the world bound by fear..." Let's replace the word "kings" with "governments," so the practice of these southern faith kings is the same as that which the fanatic extremists of our modern era now shout at the world...!!