Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he also serves as the associate director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is the editor of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections, 2011–2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (2013), coeditor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (2022), and a coeditor of the ezine Jadaliyya.

Sallam has written a compelling and excellent book on the ways the structural conditions surrounding economic austerity measures shaped Islamist responses and successes in Egypt. Today, Egypt, like many other countries, sees “less class and more identity” in its everyday politics. This transformation is directly tied to the weakening of leftist parties and the dominance of neoliberalism. Sallam puts forth a rich book that captures the sentiments of elites and citizens as they embraced this new reality.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction. More Identity, Less Class: Paths to Classless Politics1. Inheriting Nasser’s Debts: The Rise and Fall of the Nasserist Social Pact2. Islamist Incorporation in the State of Science and Faith3. Sadat’s Brothers: Islamist Incorporation and the Autonomous Path4. Nasser’s Comrades: State Guardianship and the Dependent Path5. Islamist Incorporation, National Identity, and the Left: A Tale of Two ComradesConclusion. Reflections on the Legacies of Islamist Incorporation and the Post-Mubarak PoliticsAppendix I. The Theoretical Argument, Key Concepts, and Central AssumptionsAppendix II. Critical Junctures and Path-Dependent Institutional PatternsNotesBibliographyIndex

Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he also serves as the associate director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is the editor of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections, 2011–2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (2013), coeditor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (2022), and a coeditor of the ezine Jadaliyya.

Sallam has written a compelling and excellent book on the ways the structural conditions surrounding economic austerity measures shaped Islamist responses and successes in Egypt. Today, Egypt, like many other countries, sees “less class and more identity” in its everyday politics. This transformation is directly tied to the weakening of leftist parties and the dominance of neoliberalism. Sallam puts forth a rich book that captures the sentiments of elites and citizens as they embraced this new reality.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction. More Identity, Less Class: Paths to Classless Politics1. Inheriting Nasser’s Debts: The Rise and Fall of the Nasserist Social Pact2. Islamist Incorporation in the State of Science and Faith3. Sadat’s Brothers: Islamist Incorporation and the Autonomous Path4. Nasser’s Comrades: State Guardianship and the Dependent Path5. Islamist Incorporation, National Identity, and the Left: A Tale of Two ComradesConclusion. Reflections on the Legacies of Islamist Incorporation and the Post-Mubarak PoliticsAppendix I. The Theoretical Argument, Key Concepts, and Central AssumptionsAppendix II. Critical Junctures and Path-Dependent Institutional PatternsNotesBibliographyIndex

Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where he also serves as the associate director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is the editor of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections, 2011–2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (2013), coeditor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (2022), and a coeditor of the ezine Jadaliyya.

Sallam has written a compelling and excellent book on the ways the structural conditions surrounding economic austerity measures shaped Islamist responses and successes in Egypt. Today, Egypt, like many other countries, sees “less class and more identity” in its everyday politics. This transformation is directly tied to the weakening of leftist parties and the dominance of neoliberalism. Sallam puts forth a rich book that captures the sentiments of elites and citizens as they embraced this new reality.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction. More Identity, Less Class: Paths to Classless Politics1. Inheriting Nasser’s Debts: The Rise and Fall of the Nasserist Social Pact2. Islamist Incorporation in the State of Science and Faith3. Sadat’s Brothers: Islamist Incorporation and the Autonomous Path4. Nasser’s Comrades: State Guardianship and the Dependent Path5. Islamist Incorporation, National Identity, and the Left: A Tale of Two ComradesConclusion. Reflections on the Legacies of Islamist Incorporation and the Post-Mubarak PoliticsAppendix I. The Theoretical Argument, Key Concepts, and Central AssumptionsAppendix II. Critical Junctures and Path-Dependent Institutional PatternsNotesBibliographyIndex