<div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center"><B>The book you must read to understand the<br> Islamist crisis—and the threat to us all</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Robert 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.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">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 <I>irrationality</i> won. The deformed theology that resulted, Reilly reveals, produced the spiritual pathology of Islamism, and a deeply dysfunctional culture.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I>The Closing of the Muslim Mind</i></b><I> </i>solves such puzzles as:</p> <p class="Bulletedlist" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2">·         why the Arab world stands near the bottom of every measure of human development</p> <p class="Bulletedlist" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2">·         why scientific inquiry is nearly dead in the Islamic world</p> <p class="Bulletedlist" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2">·         why Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past <I>thousand</i> years</p> <p class="Bulletedlist" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2">·         why some people in Saudi Arabia still refuse to believe man has been to the moon</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Delving deeper than previous polemics and simplistic analyses, <B><I>The Closing of the Muslim Mind</i></b><I> </i>provides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">"Should be required reading for anyone who hopes to argue effectively against Islamic jihad."<I> —</I>The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p><div>“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. . . . <i>Closing</i> 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.”</div><div>—<i>National Review Online</i></div><div> </div><div>“A book that may offer the key to both understanding and perhaps defeating the ongoing war of terror against the West.”</div><div>—<i>American Spectator</i></div><div> </div><div>“<b>Robert R. Reilly comes closer to providing a persuasive explanation [of what happened to Islamic culture] than any other account I have seen</b>. 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.”</div><div>            —<i>Weekly Standard</i></div><div> </div><div>“The lack of liberty within Islam is a huge problem. Robert Reilly's <i>The Closing of the Muslim Mind</i> 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 scienti