Alwaraq – Amalī Al-‘Alaa

Alaa al-Din "Ibn al-Nafis" lived eighty years, during which he witnessed tremendous horrors and major events: the Crusades and the horrific seventh campaign on Damietta and northern Egypt, the Mongol invasion and the fall of Baghdad at the hands of Hulagu, the power struggles between the last of the Ayyubids and the first generation of Mamluk rulers, the revolution of Hisn al-Din Thalab, the intense clashes between Aqtay, Aybek, Qutuz, Baybars, and Qalawun.. "Alaa Ibn al-Nafis" was close to all of that, as he was the personal doctor of Al-Zahir Baybars, and the chief doctor of Egypt and the Levant.. Despite the turmoil of his times, he never stopped writing in medicine, thought, and the sciences of his era, leaving behind thousands of pages.. So how did "Ibn al-Nafis" live, and what events of his life did he impose on the "scribe" who was forty years younger than him, and who lived forty years after him? This is what this novel tells. Book information: • Author: Yusuf Zidan • Year of publication: 2023 • Publisher: Al-Shorouk • Number of pages: 288