{"product_id":"9781610170024","title":"The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book you must read to understand the\u003cbr\u003eIslamist crisis—and the threat to us all\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReilly 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 \u003ci\u003eirrationality\u003c\/i\u003e won. The deformed theology that resulted, Reilly reveals, produced the spiritual pathology of Islamism, and a deeply dysfunctional culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the Muslim Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esolves such puzzles as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e·         why the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e·         why scientific inquiry is nearly dead in the Islamic world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e·         why Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past \u003ci\u003ethousand\u003c\/i\u003e years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e·         why some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the Muslim Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Should be required reading for anyone who hopes to argue effectively against Islamic jihad.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Center for the Advancement of Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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. . . . \u003ci\u003eClosing\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turner that reads almost like an intellectual detective novel. It is among those few brave books on Islam . . . that should be read by anyone who wants to understand one of the most fundamental causes of conflict in the 21st century.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNational Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A book that may offer the key to both understanding and perhaps defeating the ongoing war of terror against the West.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eRobert R. Reilly comes closer to providing a persuasive explanation [of what happened to Islamic culture] than any other account I have seen\u003c\/b\u003e. As Reilly succinctly shows, Islamic civilization . . . threw out of the intellectual window the principles of rational inquiry that the Greeks had first introduced to the West half a millennium before Christ.”\u003cbr\u003e            —\u003ci\u003eWeekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The lack of liberty within Islam is a huge problem. Robert Reilly’s \u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the Muslim Mind\u003c\/i\u003e shows that a millennium ago Muslims debated whether minds should be free to explore the world—and freedom lost. The intellectual history he offers helps to explain why Muslim countries fell behind Christian-based ones in scientific inquiry, economic development, and technology. Reilly provides astonishing statistics . . . [and] also points out how theology prefigures politics.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWorld \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Reilly recounts Islam’s abandonment of Hellenistic reason, and blames it for the subsequent decline of Muslim civilization and the rise of radical Islam. . . . The importance of this turn in Muslim thinking cannot be exaggerated.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAsia Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Superb and essential . . . Fascinating.”\u003cbr\u003e            —\u003ci\u003eJihad Watch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Reilly locates the root of modern Islamic violence . . . go[ing] far beyond the conventional wisdoms that have driven the debate over national security. . . . The remarkable facet of \u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the Muslim Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is that this work of theological archaeology is accomplished while leaving the audience an eminently readable book of just 200 pages. . . . This book should be compulsory reading at all institutions dedicated to preventing another 9\/11.”\u003cbr\u003e—Hudson Institute\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An eye-opening and mind-opening book . . . No short review can do full justice to this book . . . Well-researched and meticulously documented.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eOregon Live\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Superb and stimulating . . . Reilly’s small book has earned a place near the top of the tiny library of books I regard as indispensable. How did I live so many years without it?”\u003cbr\u003e—Joseph Sobran\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Hatred of Islamism for the West is not merely political, as Reilly’s exhaustive analysis shows, but is indeed ‘metaphysically necessary.’ . . . The roots of this now pervasive attitude are deeply buried and shrouded in time, denial and ignorance, and it is the principal achievement of Reilly’s book that he provides a comprehensive account of this momentous event, written in a lucid fashion that is accessible to both experts and the general public.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNational Observer \u003c\/i\u003e(Australia)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Clear and concise . . . What Reilly suggests, based on abundant modern scholarship, is that the first fully developed theological school in Islam, the Mu’talizites, would probably have despised bin Laden’s ravings. The tragedy of Islam is that the Mu’talizites . . . have become anathematised heretics.”\u003cbr\u003e            —\u003ci\u003eMercatorNet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The most eye-opening book of 2010.”\u003cbr\u003e            —\u003ci\u003eCatholic Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Robert Reilly helps explain the Muslim worldview by thoroughly documenting the historic and doctrinal roots behind it; by refreshingly bypassing the overly dramatized question of “what went wrong,” he explains the more pressing “\u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e it went wrong.” —\u003ci\u003eRaymond Ibrahim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ISI Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057799217392,"sku":"9781610170024","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610170024_p0.jpg?v=1763838138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610170024","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}