Egyptian reformer Muhammad Abduh personally corresponded with Gustave Le Bon

Evidence

Le Bon was away, so Abduh left his card and a small, amicable correspondence ensued (Anouar Louca, Voyageurs et écrivains égyptiens en France au XIXe siècle, p. 142). On Abduh, the influence of French social science, and his influence in turn on Arab political thought, see Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1789–1939, especially pp. 139–40. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 857

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone into the intellectual exchange between Middle Eastern reformers and French crowd psychology.
• CANDY: The great Islamic modernist Abduh once called on Le Bon and missed him — left a calling card like a Victorian suitor.