Tyrants, Khalid Ahmed Khalid

( At the moment he sits upon his throne and places his inherited crown on his head, the tyrant sees himself as one who was a human being and has become a god )Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi

This is how some people think when the spirit of power, tyranny and arrogance takes hold of them, and they feel that they are the chosen ones, set above everyone else: their word is the truth, their vision is the right path, and their thinking is genius incarnate. They alone are the towering summit, and everyone else

is nothing but worthless gravel trampled underfoot

And so, throughout its history on earth, human civilisation has known many forms of tyranny, oppression and despotism, and humanity has repeatedly come up against mighty tyrants who left it stunned, bewildered and wretched, so stripped were they of humanity in even its simplest sense. Indeed, we can say without shame or any sense of exaggeration that these tyrants were simply ferocious, deformed beasts hiding behind deceptive human masks. This book covers the most notorious rulers, kings and leaders who acted tyrannically in their lands and spread corruption there, violating

lives, taboos and all that is sacred, so that true history remembers them only with evil and curses