The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis

by Reilly, Robert R.; Scruton, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781610170024
• ISBN10: 1610170024
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-04
• Publisher: Isi Books

Summary

The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis-and the threat to us all Robert R. Reilly#x19;s eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the spiritual pathology of Islamism. Reilly uncovers the root of our contemporary crisis: a pivotal struggle waged within the Muslim world nearly a millennium ago. In a heated battle over the role of reason, the side of irrationalitywon. The deformed theology that resulted, Reilly reveals, produced the spiritual pathology of Islamism, and a deeply dysfunctional culture. The Closing of the Muslim Mindsolves such puzzles as: #xB7; why the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human development #xB7; why scientific inquiry is nearly dead in the Islamic world #xB7; why Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousandyears #xB7; why some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon Delving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, The Closing of the Muslim Mindprovides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis. #x1C;Brilliant and groundbreaking . . . Should be read by anyone who wants to understand one of the most fundamental causes of conflict in the twenty-first century.#x1D; - National Review Online #x1C;May offer the key to both understanding and perhaps defeating the ongoing war of terror against the West.#x1D; - American Spectator #x1C;A must-read for today#x19;s national security leaders.#x1D;- John M. Poindexter, National Security Advisor to President Reagan

Author Biography

Robert R. Reilly is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. He has served in the White House and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction: Intellectual Suicide	p. 1
The Opening: Islam Discovers Hellenic Thought	p. 11
The Overthrow of the Mu'tazilites: The Closing Commences	p. 41
The Metaphysics of the Will	p. 59
The Triumph of Ash'arism	p. 91
The Unfortunate Victory of al-Ghazali and the Dehellenization of Islam	p. 119
Decline and Consequences	p. 127
The Wreckage: Muslim Testimonials	p. 157
The Sources of Islamism	p. 173
The Crisis	p. 197
Notes	p. 207
Further Reading	p. 229
Acknowledgments	p. 233
Index	p. 235
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