Egypt in a third of a century

The book that we have in our hands and that we are republishing is considered an event by all standards, not only because the book is rare and its first edition was published more than a hundred years ago, specifically at the beginning of 1919, but because it was published a few days before the outbreak of the famous popular revolution, and its author was one of its forgotten heroes. A jurist who was a member of the Committee of Senior Scholars at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif at the time of Sheikh Ali Abdel-Razzaq's trial following the publication of his book "Islam and Governance." He was also a journalist, historian, and social reformer. But only this book remained of his effects, in which he included his articles that he published in newspapers denouncing either the Egyptian rulers at the beginning of the twentieth century or the English occupation. British colonial control in Egypt had stabilized and become a fait accompli, and Britain wanted it to also establish itself in the minds of the Egyptians. There were attempts to justify the legitimacy of the occupation, and to consider it a reason for Egypt's progress and renaissance. These attempts were confronted by the pens of national historians such as Muhammad Mustafa Al-Hehiawi, who wanted to It reveals the truth without falsity.