Criticism of Arab mind criticism - the resigned mind in Islam?

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The book / The Resigned Mind in Islam (Critique of the Critique of Arab Reason), by the author / George Tarabishi, presents the fourth and final part of his critical project, addressing the central question about the reasons for the decline of Arab Islamic rationality. The book tackles deconstructing Muhammad Abduh Al-Jabiri's narrative that attributes the "resignation of reason" to an external invasion (such as modern Greek and Eastern Hermeticism), and rejects this "geographical epistemology." Instead, Tarabishi attempts to interpret the tragedy as an internal process, where the self-structure of Arab Islamic reason bears responsibility for "resigning itself." The book analyzes texts such as "Nabataean Agriculture" and "Letters of the Brothers of Purity" to extract the cognitive mechanisms (such as analogy) that led to this decline, offering an alternative reading of the history of decline.