The Bride of the Nile

by Georg Ebers Book 5 in the Roman, Christian and Early Islamic Egypt series.

First published 1887

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Egypt has passed from Byzantine to Arab rule, but conquest has not ended the struggle over faith, property and authority. Christian families, church leaders and the new Muslim administration negotiate an unsettled society in which old grievances survive beside new political realities.

At the centre of the story are private relationships tested by religious division and the consequences of regime change. The government of Amr ibn al-As and the authority of Caliph Umar form part of a broader portrait of seventh-century Egypt, where Coptic Christianity, Byzantine memory and early Islamic rule meet along the Nile.