Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai

He spent most of his life in Cairo but moved to Alexandria for high school.immediately after his graduation he practiced law for less than a month until Mohammad Farid محمد فريد (a prominent lawyer and historian) asked him to become the editor of the Major General Al-San newspaper بجريدة اللواء لسان and this proved to be the first step in his life as a historian and a politician.

In 1907 he became a part of Egyptian national party that was led by Mostafa Kamel Pasha مصطفى كامل who was also a journalist and a political figure.

[2] In this book he drew the nation's attention to the importance of development of rural areas is different aspects such as physical, socially and humanly.

Al-Rafai wrote his third book in 1922 titled National Societies "الجمعيات الوطنية" where he spoke about the relationship between the social and political cohesion and economic growth.

Numerous historians have agreed that Al-Rafai researched and collected the most data concerning these topic that could have been known during that period in time and in his circumstances which makes is why his work became a strong basis to the history of systematic in Egypt and the Arab world as a whole.