Mamluk tyranny

As usual, Jerji Raydan takes you in his narration to the heart of the events in a wonderful description as if you were living the story like this without the need for those long boring introductions. The writer talks here about the history of Egypt in the end of the eighteenth century by recounting a model for the family of the merchant Abdel Rahman, his son Hassan and his wife, Salama, and their lives were deprived after the father escaped from one of Ali Bey''s campaigns, in which he talks about the Mamluk alliance with Russia in its wars with the Ottoman Empire. The writer also shows the tyranny and injustice that took place at the hands of the Mamluks (who came after he had assumed the reins of power in Egypt after the Fatimid caliphs a number of sultans and rulers to whom the Egyptian state affairs were entrusted, so they raised the flags of its prosperity and progress) and what was from the administration of Ali Bey, which is one The sultans who ruled Egypt and the Levant and dominated and oppressed their people, imposing taxes and harming the people, and explaining the facts of the political, historical and social situation that the Levant witnessed in the late last century, as well as the history of the Ottoman rulers and the role they played in imposing their control over this great spot on the ground.