Before the Throne Author:Naguib Mahfouz In this extraordinary drama-in-dialogue, Naguib Mahfouz reveals his love for all of Egyptâs extensive historyâand his deep knowledge of it. In Before the Throne, he summons nearly sixty of Egyptâs rulers to the afterlife Court of Osiris, from a king who unified Egypt for the first time, around 3000 BC, to a president assassinated by religious ex... more »tremists in 1981.
He includes names as familiar as the pharaoh Ramesses II and as obscure as the medieval vizier Qaraqush. Defending their behavior before the divine tribunal, those who acted for the nationâs good are honored with immortality, but those who failed to protect it leave the gilded hall of eternal justice with a very different verdict.
Full of Mahfouzâs unique insight into his countryâs timeless qualities, this controversial work skillfully traces five thousand years of Egyptâs past as it flows into the present, through the mind of its most acclaimed author.« less