Reviving Civil Society in Egypt

Review of Sultanistic Regimes, by H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, ed.

There is an emerging current of enlightened thought in the Muslim world today, but it is all too often wrongly labeled and poorly understood.

Although Islamist terror groups invoke a host of religious references, the real source of their ideas is not the Koran but rather Leninism, fascism, and other strains of twentieth-century thought…