{"product_id":"9781610170024-the-closing-of-the-muslim-mind","title":"The  Closing of the Muslim Mind","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis\u003cbr\u003eIn this eye-opening new book, foreign policy expert Robert R. 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis—and the threat to us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 irrationality won. The deformed theology that resulted, Reilly reveals, produced the spiritual pathology of Islamism, and a deeply dysfunctional culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the Muslim Mind\u003c\/i\u003e solves such puzzles as:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy scientific inquiry is nearly dead in the Islamic world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eDelving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, \u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the Muslim Mind\u003c\/i\u003e provides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451533341046,"sku":"9781610170024","price":13.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32697251.jpg?v=1760462871","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781610170024-the-closing-of-the-muslim-mind","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}