The Frenchman Jean-Jacques Ampère wrote about Egypt, saying, "Whoever crosses this great country finds in his way the Holy Bible, which is Myrrhus, philosophy, science, the Greeks, the Romans, Christianity, and the doctrines that emerged from it, monasticism, Islam, the Crusades, and the French Revolution. Indeed, he almost throws into it everything that was of serious concern in the history of this world... How can we find a city like Alexandria, built by Alexander, defended by Caesar, and then conquered? Napoleon?
The book aims to understand Egypt's share in the Islamic civilization that flourished in a large part of the world until the torrent of Western civilization overwhelmed most Islamic countries.