Andrew F. March is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and author of Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus (2009), The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (2019), and On Muslim Democracy: Essay and Dialogues (with Rached Ghannouchi, 2023).
Syria is a rare case. A state being governed by a new elite that is committed to Islamic thought but open to a wide range of intellectual influences. While it is early, we may see the rise of a novel brand of Islamic presidentialism in the works.
