This saying holds true for all the early stages of its history. Information about it is very scarce, forcing the researcher to rely on the context that surrounds the historical news that has come down about it. It is most likely that Cairo in the year Ibn al-Senussi arrived was living under the protection of Muhammad Ali Pasha, who had seized control of affairs in Egypt. This was the year the people appointed him to lead Hamr Makram with strength since 1804. Egypt experienced a life full of chaos between the rivalry of the Mamluks and the influence of foreign powers. Since taking power, Muhammad Ali adopted a policy based on force and absolute rule. He worked to advance Egypt through economic progress and sent missions to France, bringing in experts from there to strengthen his army and equip it with the latest equipment. Through military reform, the Western civilized style entered Egypt. He also pursued his other expansionist plans. At the same time, he monopolized power and oppressed the leaders of the nation, exiling their leader Omar Makram, bringing closer some hypocritical scholars, and making them subservient to him. As much as the scholar admires his military reforms, he is equally appalled by his oppressive methods of rule. The reason for this is that Muhammad Ali did not deeply grasp European civilization; he only wanted to seize what they had created without reaching its true essence. His policies, unfortunately, burdened the people of Egypt with taxes and exhausted them with wars against the Wahhabis, in the land of the Sudan, and in Syria, making the people despair and suffer. The Al-Azhar at that time was in decline. The sciences taught there were limited. However, among the scholars of Al-Azhar, there were those who played their role, like Omar Makram, especially during the difficult period that Egypt went through from the French invasion until Muhammad Ali took power.