Historical Overviews of the Relations between Some Countries of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the Islamic Era (Examples: Egypt - Land of the Russians - Crimea) is the first in a series of publications on historical and Islamic civilization research that the Center for Islamic Civilization Studies released in the Academic Research Sector of the Library of Alexandria. Dr. Sahar Salem, Professor of Islamic history and civilization at Alexandria University's Faculty of Arts, is the author.

This study examines historical models of the relationship between the two seas from various Islamic countries and historical periods. The two sections of the study are as follows: the first covers Egypt's relations with the Russian countries from the Fatimid to the end of the Mamluk era, and the second covers Egypt's relations with the Crimean Peninsula in the eighth and ninth centuries AH/14th and 15th centuries AD.