Introduction : Intellectual suicide -- The opening : Islam discovers hellenic thought -- The overthrow of the Mu'tazilites : The closing commences -- The metaphysics of the will -- The triumph of Ash'arism -- The unfortunate victory of al-Ghazali and the dehellanization if Islam -- Decline and consequences -- The wreckage : Muslim testimonials -- The sources of Islamism -- The crisis

"Robert Reilly masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. The Closing of the Muslim Mind provides the answers the West has so desperately needed in confronting the Islamist crisis"--Cover, p. 4