In his book “Leaders of Thought,” Taha Hussein insists a lot on the necessity of adopting a complete similarity between the Near East (= Middle East) and Europe, starting from a conformist reading of everything that is common in the approaches that say that the history of the West is a coherent and consistent fabric of events, and that it - and with it human history - is governed by a finality that leads it to a specific end, and the correspondence between the two historical conditions of the West and the Near East is important to him.