To: Researchers of the Middle East Studies
Subject: Book: The Muslim Mind on Trial

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to bring to your attention the publication of "The Muslim Mind on Trial," by Abdessalam Yassine. "The Muslim Mind on Trial" is one of more than 30 books by Yassine, a prominent Muslim scholar from Morocco, and one of the leading contemporary thinkers of the Muslim world.

It is a scholarly book that focuses specifically on the human mind-as being receptive or hopelessly inimical to God's great plan for a modern-day community founded on deepest Qur'anic streams.

In essence, the argument elucidates the profound contrast between the secular materialistic mind (and its philosophical dead-ends) and the believing mind founded on and nourished by Revelation.

The contrast is 'one of character'. At the one extreme-which Yassine likes to associate with the theories of Darwin and their bestial consequences for the dignity of the human species-lies a rudderless human mentality, floundering in the oceans of philosophical speculation. At the other is a mind securely anchored in Faith and God's Word, not withdrawn into a pietistic self-centeredness but expansive with the goal of enlightening fellow humankind, bringing peace and prosperity, and the incalculable power of unity.

Sincerely,
-Imad Benjelloun, Ph.D.
President of Justice & Spirituality Publishing