Diaries of a Shia scholar in Egypt

The author: Tawfiq Al-Tamimi Spent half a century with Mr. Talib Al-Rifai in dictation of these memoirs, and it was an enjoyable journey with the chapters of Egyptian memory for the trusted reference of Najaf and the Imam of the Shiites in Egypt (which is a title of description that has not been exclusive to Mr. Talib Al-Rifai until today). In these second dictations after his first dictation, which was completed and edited by researcher Rashid Khayyoon, he sheds light on the period he spent in Egypt over two decades as (Imam of the Shiites) there, and what his memory retained of positions, memories, and names, starting with his relations with Presidents Abdel Nasser and Sadat, to his relations with Al-Azhar sheikhs, and prominent Egyptian women in the fields of politics, literature, parties, and culture such as (Bint Al-Shate’), (Safinaz Kadhim), and (Tahia Kadhim, wife of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser), as well as the Islamist preacher (Zainab Al-Ghazali). These dictations included chapters that tell about his early foundations and what he endured in order to spread the Shiite doctrine within the Shiite environment, which surpasses Arab and Islamic environments in accepting the Shiite doctrine due to its close Fatimid history and the presence of Al-Azhar, which stands out in that Shiite state, along with obstacles in achieving this mission assigned to him by the reference Imam Sayyid Moussawi Al-Hakim at the end of 1969. The reader will find in these diaries more benefits and gains, as the memoirist Mr. Talib Al-Rifai himself says. A book from the diaries of a Shiite scholar in Egypt. Author: Tawfiq Al-Tamimi