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The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Robert R. Reilly
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Description for The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
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 ... Read more solves such puzzles as:
Delving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, The Closing of the Muslim Mind provides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis. Show Less
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 ... Read more 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
Delving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, The Closing of the Muslim Mind provides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis. Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781610170024
SKU
V9781610170024
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About Robert R. Reilly
Robert R. Reilly is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, and National Review, among many other publications. A former director of the Voice of America, he has taught at the National Defense University and served in the White House and the Office of the ... Read more
Reviews for The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Should be required reading for anyone who hopes to argue effectively against Islamic jihad." —The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism “What happened to moderate Islam and what sort of hope we may have for it in the future . . . is the subject of Robert Reilly’s brilliant and groundbreaking new book. . . . Closing is a ... Read more