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

    By Robert R. Reilly

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    The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis—and the threat to us all


    Robert R. Reilly’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 irrationality won. The deformed theology that resulted, Reilly reveals, produced the spiritual pathology of Islamism, and a deeply dysfunctional culture.

    The Closing of the Muslim Mind solves such puzzles as:

    · Why the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human development
    · Why scientific inquiry is nearly dead in the Islamic world
    · Why Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years
    · Why some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon



    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 8, 2014
    ISBN9781497620735
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    The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
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    Robert R. Reilly

    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.

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      A well-researched and well organized exposition on the theological problems plaguing the Islamic world. The root of the problem, Reilly points out, is the demolition of reason which occurred when the God of Will of the Asharites prevailed over the Mutazilites God of Reason and Justice, similar to the opposing traditions of Calvinism (which placed an emphasis on revelation over reason and God's soverignity) and the tradition of Thomas Aquinas of God being Logos or reason. Good book for anyone wanting to understand why the Middle East ranks at the bottom of every conceivable measure despite an initial flourishing in the early days of Islam (the Islamic Golden Age), the constant victimhood identity, and what it means for the future and the rest of the world. In some places I felt the author was a little deaf to the vast scriptural evidence for use of reason, natural laws in the Qur'an and somewhat biased in the notion Christianity is inherently more oriented to reason from a scriptural standpoint. There are several instances in the Qur'an that support the idea of God creating laws that govern the natural world "No disaster strikes the Earth except by his Laws" 64:11 and that God has made religion for the purpose of justice and not for divine caprice "“We sent....the Book and the Balance, that men may stand forth in Justice." 57:25 Just as there is scriptural basis in Christianity for anti-rationalist, God as pure Will and Free, even free to do evil... "What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction" Romans 9:22 which was the basis of Calvinism. This is not to smear Christianity or to hold up Islam over it, I am merely pointing that both religious texts, have verses that support for and aganist reason, human freedom, and God as a moral agent or amoral, completely free agent. Reilly pointed out that the time between the birth of Christianity and Thomas Aquinas natural theology was 1300 years, roughly the amount of time from the birth of Islam up till now, so it with great hope that the Islam's Englightenment is on its way soon.