ABSTRACT
In the five chapters of Part II, we looked in detail at the views of liberal intellectuals who oppose religious extremism in Egypt. These individuals were not selected at random. Senior government officials, such as prime ministers or ministers, were not included. Rather, we chose a representative sample of a broad range of Egyptian thinkers and researchers. All are people of public stature, and all are major figures in their fields of interest. The great majority regularly write or have written against militant fundamentalism. More could have been presented of their writing, of course, but that would extend this study unnecessarily.
