Mario and Abo Alabbass

A novel whose events take place between the era of the Mursi Sufi Abu Al-Abbas, and the era of the Italian architectural designer Mario Rossi. Despite the distance in time between the two characters and the events that accompanied them, the writer Reem Bassiouni presents to us their lives and how the Italian architectural designer, who built many mosques for the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments, identified with the personality of Al-Marsa Abu Al-Abbas when he was commissioned to design and implement the construction of his mosque in Alexandria in the 1930s of the last century. . Let us learn about the life of this Sufi, who was forced to immigrate with his family from the city of Murcia in Andalusia to Tunisia, where he met the Sufi leader Al-Shazli and moved with him to Alexandria, where they lived and together witnessed great events that affected them. We also witness his acquaintance with Al-Busiri and his influence on him and Ibn Ata' Al-Alexandri, who became an extension of Al-Shazli and Abu Al-Abbas, who became a symbol, still lives in the lives of the people of Alexandria.