Ahmed bin Tulun (ePub)

Jerji Zidan's novel "Ahmed Bin Tulun" is a love historical novel that falls within his series "The Novels of the History of Islam" that combines the characteristics of the literary novel and historical facts, in which the novel focuses on the important historical events that occurred during the era of Ahmed bin Tulun, as it includes a description of Egypt and the country Nubia in the middle of the third century of migration and Zidane was interested in the novel by describing the political, social and literary conditions, in the Tulunid era, and the writer presents all this and other aspects through a chaste love story that brings together Damiana, who suffers from poor morals of her father with the chief engineer of Ibn Tulun, nicknamed Saeed, who is a Christian young man The famous Ibn Tulun Mosque. Through the events, the writer addresses a set of important issues: - Christian Islamic coexistence in Egypt - Disagreements between the Christian denominations at the time and their impact on their general situation in the state. The stages of weakness and strength experienced by the Islamic countries in Egypt. The nature of the relationship that brought together Muslims and the people of Nubia. Also, in the course of his speech, several things, including: the persecution that the Copts and the Shiites suffered during the reign of Al -Mutawakkil, the arrival of the "pro -judgment" of the referee, the customs that were spread among the Copts.