Men of Marj Dabiq

The story of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the Levant "None of the men who filled the space of Marj Dabiq on that hot summer night knew exactly how things would end. All they knew was that war had become inevitable, that it could break out at any moment, and that their stay in this wide marsh would not last long. As for how the fortunes would be distributed among them: who among them would be taken prisoner? And who would fall as a martyr in the battle? And would the army led by their Sultan, the King Al-Ashraf Abu Nasr Qansuh Al-Ghuri, win, or would the army of their enemy, Sultan Al-Muzaffar Selim Khan bin Bayezid the Ottoman, triumph? None of them knew anything about all this." This is how the great writer Salah Eissa begins his engaging book about the Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the Levant. And as he accustomed us in his historical works: "Men Ria and Sakina," "Stories from the National Notebook," and "Al-Maqrizi's Margins: Stories from Egypt," history here is not the history of rulers, but the history of peoples in their dealings with their lives and in facing the dangers threatening them. Number of pages: 248 Year of publication: 2021 Publisher: Dar Al-Karma for Publishing and Distribution