This novel is a creative and dangerous work, creative because it contains areas of human dialogue written with a delicate sensitivity in which emotion mixes with pleasure, and dangerous because it includes a study in the emergence and development of the sectarian conflict between the Christian sects in the East.. Youssef Zaidan is distinguished by two talents, the talent of the creator and the talent of the researcher, and often The two talents do not overlap in this work.” “Sami Khashaba”
"If we read this novel a real reading, we would realize the highness of our goals and the nobility of its moral and spiritual goals, which are an affirmation of the values of tolerance and acceptance of the other, respect for the right to difference, and the rejection of the principle of violence. The language of the novel is a poetic language, in which the echoes of Sufi supplications reverberate, especially when we read a monologue of fear to God." "Dr. Jaber Asfour »
"Youssef Zaidan is the first Muslim novelist to write about Christian theology in a profound narrative way, and he is the first Muslim to try to give solutions to major ecclesiastical problems.. Youssef Zaidan broke into the life of monasteries, and drew with the brush of a monk ecclesiastical events that actually took place, and had a great impact on the history of the Church Coptic "Bishop John Gregorios"
