Sabir the Egyptian
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Pirates Pirates Maltese Pirates Oh my God, Captain, Rais, The knights of Shouted the poor Egyptian sailor from the monkey The captain and his men looked desperate knowing that their little ship will never be able to escape, win a race or a battle against that beautiful and fast Maltese ship; they fell on their faces and started to pray to God asking for merci. Sabir the Egyptian was one of the crew members of that Egyptian merchant ship, that was a little more than two hundred years ago, Sabir was seventeen years old and stood alone in this world having lost both parents on one stormy night, upon the advise of his father’s friends, he set to sea to find a new life hoping that he will be able to forget his tragedy, his voyage however lasted six days only and he was captured in to slavery on the island of Malta. The honorable Grand Master of the Saint John Knights of One day Napoleon invaded Malta and set free all the Arab slaves taken by the knights of Saint John, when he touched the shores of Egypt the first to disembark were the freed Arab slaves ,Napoleon wanted to show Egypt with deeds that his campaign to invade Egypt had a good purpose, as he declared, “To free the Egyptian population from the unjust rule of the Mamluke” just as Alexander the Great freed Egypt from the Persian occupation . The French campaign was fiercely resisted by the Egyptian population for three years , at the end of that campaign France retreated leaving a country in ruins , Egypt started to rebuild it self again and to burry its dead , Sabir however was not able to remain in Egypt as he was brand marked as a collaborator, therefore he left Egypt again and remained for the rest of his life in France teaching Arabic and Islamic culture,
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Sabir the Egyptian
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The book “Sabir the Egyptian” is the life story of a man who lived some two hundred years ago during a turbulent period of east / west relationship, by telling his story the author hopes that on both sides many facts will be clear.
As the driving forces of hate , greed and domination on both sides can be fatal for both civilizations if the intellectuals and wise thinkers do not step in and put an end to the mischievous acts of those who want to reestablish Alexander’s Kingdom or the Roman Empire again , like Napoleon or Hitler or those who want to repeat the un Islamic and murderous acts of Eleven September.
This book is a try to tell the story about the first major encounter between west and east after the crusades, to hopefully paint a picture on how it should never be again.
About the Author
My name is Muthanna Al Kurtass, I am a Citizen of Saudi Arabia
Since childhood I liked to tell stories and like many children in the Arab world most of the summer vacations were spent in grand parents homes , my father had one sister and when I came from the other house of my mother’s parents she wanted to know every thing , and I at a very young age was telling her my stories, she knew off course that I was making things up, but she enjoyed them a lot and she used to laugh about them , especially about the apple trees my other grand father has planted on the roof and how delicious the apples were “
Later in life I became a sea farer whose profession took to all corners of the world, I have come to know the world from seeing, touching and smelling and not only from hearing, reading or watching films.
In my early years, I spent more than one year at the shores of the lovely
Sea travel at a young age took me to many parts of the world.
When meeting and talking to people from other parts of the world, it was evident how ignorant we are of each other, an ignorance that lead to many unfortunate happenings .
This book is meant to be a tool of introducing the east to the west and vise versa, I believe it is very vital if we want to avoid the mistakes of the past and ensure a peaceful future.