The Closing of the Muslim Mind

This book looks like a serious academic study in Islamic theology. It is divided into nine chapters that build on an overall argument and has a great number of endnotes, quoting Muslim sources and literature pro-duced in the field of Islamic studies. The book’s author works with-in Washington’s cir...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c96525a8a844490485a49c689cb561482021-12-02T19:23:13ZThe Closing of the Muslim Mind10.35632/ajis.v28i4.12272690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/c96525a8a844490485a49c689cb561482011-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1227https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This book looks like a serious academic study in Islamic theology. It is divided into nine chapters that build on an overall argument and has a great number of endnotes, quoting Muslim sources and literature pro-duced in the field of Islamic studies. The book’s author works with-in Washington’s circle of government institutions and think tanks. His book comes with a foreword and no fewer than ten endorsements by colleagues of Reilly, which praise his erudition, insight, and abil-ity to analyze and explain the Muslim mind. I wonder whether they were all aware that the book they endorsed is, in fact, a Catholic refutation of Ashʿarite Muslim theology, the leading branch of Sunni theology. However, Reilly exempts Shiite theology from his harsh criticism ... Frank GriffelInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 28, Iss 4 (2011)
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind
description This book looks like a serious academic study in Islamic theology. It is divided into nine chapters that build on an overall argument and has a great number of endnotes, quoting Muslim sources and literature pro-duced in the field of Islamic studies. The book’s author works with-in Washington’s circle of government institutions and think tanks. His book comes with a foreword and no fewer than ten endorsements by colleagues of Reilly, which praise his erudition, insight, and abil-ity to analyze and explain the Muslim mind. I wonder whether they were all aware that the book they endorsed is, in fact, a Catholic refutation of Ashʿarite Muslim theology, the leading branch of Sunni theology. However, Reilly exempts Shiite theology from his harsh criticism ...
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