Le Bon’s crowd theory was assimilated into Egyptian political vocabulary within two years

Evidence

The book he translated seems to have been widely read, at least among those with similar fears concerning the threat of popular disorder. Scarcely two years later the future rector of the Egyptian University was writing that its ideas ‘have been completely assimilated by Egyptian minds, as shown in the very vocabulary used by writers in the press’. The assimilation of the results of research by such social scientists (ulama’ al-ijtima`) was helping to rectify Egyptian ideas about society. The laws it revealed, he said, were to be applied to guide the country forward. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 392