
(The Sacrifice of Islam) appeared in Ramadan 1351 AH, January 1933 AD, in two volumes and four parts. Taha Hussein wrote its introduction in seven pages. I will suffice with what is possible from it: (... I do not want to betray my friend Ahmed Amin by being excessive in praising him, nor to betray him by belittling him and falling short in his character. Rather, I want to forget his friendship and neglect - even for a short moment - the affection between me and him, all of it pure and brotherly, which we were able to make above what people compete over in terms of benefits and life’s purposes. Rather, I want to be fair to him, and I testify that I have thought and estimated, and exerted myself to find something of a forbidden defect with which to describe this book that I am presenting to readers, but I did not find anything, and I did not succeed in that, little or much. I do not know which of the two I should congratulate on this victory: Ahmed Amin, because he worked hard and persisted and continued in his hard work and persistence, until he reached this success, or the Egyptian University, because it was guided to Ahmed Amin and entrusted to him what it entrusted to the types of studies and arts. Research? ..).. He concluded his introduction by saying: (I testify that Ahmed Amin has succeeded in this book in achieving both scientific and artistic mastery: he explored Islamic intellectual life in an unprecedented manner, then presented it in a manner that is the furthest thing from the staleness and coldness of science, and the closest thing to the beauty and sweetness of art..) About the Author: Ahmed Amin, author of The Morning of Islam and the author of 42 other books. - The author Ahmed Amin. He is one of the leading figures in Arab and Islamic thought in the first half of the twentieth century. Other works by the author: The Dawn of Islam, The Day of Islam, Harun al-Rashid, To My Son, The Dawn of Islam, Volume 2, Part East and West, The Morning of Islam, The Mahdi and Mahdism, The Book of Ethics, The Day of Islam, Literary Criticism, Unmasking Development Theories
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