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is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Helwan University, Egypt. He was educated at the Universities of Mansura and Asyut, has been a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Culture at Tokyo University, and received his Ph.D. from Helwan University with a thesis on The European Powers and the Ottoman-Russian Struggle over the Black Sea. His research interest is focused on the intellectual history of Egypt during Ottoman times. Ad-Dali is an active member of the Egyptian Historical Society. Among his publications (mostly in Arabic) are: The Role of Sufism in Egyptian History during the Ottoman Period (Cairo 1994), The Zawiya and Egyptian Society in the 16th Century (Tokyo 2000), The Ulema’ and the Ottoman Occupation of Egypt (Tokyo 2001), Ottoman Historical Research in Egypt since 1936 (in English, Tokyo 2001), The Political Discourse of Sufism in Egypt (Cairo 2004), Modern Russia and Russians in Egyptian Historical Works (Cairo 2006).