Islam Was the First Ideology

A Rebuttal to The Enchantment of the Arab Mind by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour’s article “The Enchantment of the Arab Mind” is, in essence, a sophisticated rescue mission: an attempt to save Islam from its offspring. He diagnoses the Arab world’s decay not as the natural consequence of Islam’s doctrines, but as a tragic psychological reaction, an “enchantment” with Western ideologies. In his telling, Islam…