History of Egypt, Parts 1 and 2

1 History of Egypt up to the Ottoman Conquest, with Notes on the Nations Connected with Egypt in That Era

History in general, across its various fields and methods, is among the most useful and enjoyable things a person can read in the whole of human culture and knowledge, and it is of great importance. Its value is known to the wise and to people of thought and experience, as it is known to politicians and those who run the affairs of nations, because they understand the importance of linking the past with the present and the influence of the past on the future. Whoever cannot read history well has no ability to foresee and plan for the future, a matter of the utmost importance in the life of peoples, present and future. This book, “History of Egypt,” in its first and second parts, relies on a sequential historical narrative of the whole of Egyptian history, from the Pharaonic era to the beginning of the twentieth century. The authors finished writing the first part on 25 August 1915 and the second part on 1 September 1916 
This book has many distinguishing features, the most important being that, in addition to the whole of Egyptian history, it contains a brief account of a number of civilizations and nations whose history was linked to
that of Egypt for one reason or another, so it includes chapters on the civilizations of the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and others

History of Egypt from the Ottoman Conquest to Shortly Before the Present Day

The history of modern Egypt is dynamic; it is full of momentous events that are hard for any historian to take in all at once. Egypt came under Ottoman control in 1517, when Sultan Selim I destroyed the Mamluk state and executed its last sultan, «Tuman Bay». However, the Mamluks exploited the weakness that befell the Ottoman state, and Ali Bey al-Kabir managed to seize sole power, but rule soon returned to the Ottomans once again, until the French campaign came to Egypt and lasted three years. After it, «Muhammad Ali» took power and revived the country, but Europe stood against his renaissance and crushed it in 1840, and continued to interfere in Egypt’s affairs until it occupied it in 1882