Simon Henry Leeder (1865 – 14 May 1930) was a British author. He is best known for work, ''Modern Sons of the Pharaohs'', discussing the Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt.

Biography

Leeder was born in Deptford, London, in 1865, to Simon and Elizabeth Leeder.''1881 England Census'' He is related to Tobias Leeder and Henry Tucker. The Leeder family and the Tucker family left Egypt in 1836 for England. Tobias's father John was transferred by the army to New Zealand and Henry's father John moved to Wales.

''Modern Sons of the Pharaohs''

''Modern Sons of the Pharaohs'' is a study of Egypt's Coptic Christians, their religious rites and their relationship with Muslims. The author analyses Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt prior to the 1919 Revolution for independence from the British and believes the British occupation has ruined the relationship between Muslims and Copts in Egypt. The book was written after the author lived in Egypt and visited several Coptic families in the Delta and

Upper Egypt Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south. In ancient ...

. The work was published in English in 1918, translated into Arabic by Ahmad Mahmūd and published in 2008 by Dar al-Shuruq in Egypt.

Other works

*''The Desert Gateway, Biskra and Thereabouts'' (1910) *''Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam'' (1912)

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* 1865 births 1930 deaths Date of birth missing British writers People from Deptford {{Egypt-writer-stub