History of Egypt during the era of Khedive Ismail Pasha

Muhammad Ali was succeeded by his eldest son, Ibrahim Pasha, the commander of the victorious Egyptian armies in epics and battles, and the conqueror of the Wahhabis, the Greeks, and the Turks, but his term lasted only three months: because Al-Manoun chose him while he was in the utmost effort to make the country happy, while his father was still alive.
He was followed by (Abbas I), his nephew Tusun, who died in the year 1816 - and he was the most senior male in the family - and he reigned until the year 1854 as a king who tried his best, during the six years during which his nightmare spread throughout the hearts, to turn Egypt away from the modern path that his great grandfather (Muhammad Ali) had introduced into it. , bringing it back to the dazzling Middle Ages.
But he was killed while he was in the prime of his manhood, and his uncle Muhammad Saeed Pasha, son of the great Muhammad Ali, succeeded him on the throne. He reigned for nine years, all of which were good and happy for the country, had he not burdened the Egyptian government with some excessive provisions in the privilege he granted to Ferdinand de Lesseps. For the construction of the Suez Canal, and the financial hardship that his extravagance caused on his employees and employees, with the two debts - current and registered - imposed on the country and together amounting to approximately eleven and a half million pounds, and which had no return from useful public works, for the nine years of his reign. Golden in the modern history of Egypt.
When he ascended to the emirate, his strong physique heralded a long life. But his extravagance in pleasures killed him, too, when he was forty years old. He was succeeded by (Ismail I), his nephew (Ibrahim) the Great, and it is he who this book narrates the history of Egypt during his reign!