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Faith without reason: Review of ?The Closing of the Muslim Mind?

By Alliance Alert

At The American Spectator, Matthew Kenefick reviews The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly: "Reilly argues that 'the denigration of reason and the primacy of force that developed within Islamic thinking after the suppression of the Mu'tazilites are what have produced the dismissal of dialogue.' Bin Laden quoted his spiritual godfather Abdullah Azzam in a November 2001 video released after 9/11: 'Terrorism is an obligation in Allah's religion.' Reilly's analysis is that 'the restoration of the status of reason is the only antidote to the spiritual pathology behind this remark; it is also the only foundation in which real dialogue can begin -- dialogue within Islam among its contending factions, and between Islam and the West.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).