HIST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hassan Al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Sonallah Ibrahim
Document Summary
Will help us understand history right after the napoleonic invasion of egypt. He was a well known historic chronicler and intellect living in cairo in the late 18th. He was probably born in the nile delta and has somali background. He was born under the reign of the mamlouks, who were answerable to the ottoman sultan. Trained to be a sheikh at al azhar university. When the invasion happens in egypt in 1798, he puts his training towards chronicling the french invasion. He calls on egyptians to join the french. He makes detailed observations about the french army, such as their superior weapons and organizations. This is the beginning of demonstrating the threat that european powers pose to the middle east. Muhammad ali ruled what started to be called the modern nation of egypt. There were a lot of debates about whether or not he was the founder of modern egypt.
