Rifaa Al-Tahtawi

In the last year of the eighteenth century, the French expedition came to Egypt, bringing to it everything new in the West, and it was a violent shock that woke up the sleeping city. Since this year, Egypt has begun to communicate with the West. Muhammad Ali has believed since he assumed the throne of Egypt that the secret of the West's greatness and progress is this new science. That is why he made every effort to transfer this science to Egypt and the Egyptians. He established schools, su...