"A wonderful book in the most accurate, broadest and truest sense of the word." This is how the dean of Arabic literature, Taha Hussein, introduces this unique historical novel, which tells the story of the end of the Mamluk era in Egypt with the hanging of their last sultan on Bab Zuweila. After the injustice intensified on the resident Roman merchants and their families, and unbearable taxes were imposed on them, Prince Tuman Bay advises his Sultan Al-Ghouri to end the injustice. He orders the arrest of the treasurer, tortures him and demands that he pay back what he has looted, without accepting the intercession of his Roman son-in-law. Rather, he decides to separate the Roman from his family, and the man flees to his family in the land of the Ottomans, determined to avenge himself. An incident like this may pass unnoticed in people's minds, but it changed the course of history; war knocks on the doors of a safe country, and the Ottoman flag is raised over the kingdom of Egypt.
