Closing of the Muslim Mind

The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisisand the threat to us allRobert 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 [...]
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The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisisand the threat to us allRobert 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 ofirrationalitywon. 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:Why the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human developmentWhy 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 pastthousandyears Why some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon