The Rejection of Rationalism and Logic

Among the explicitly anti-Western and anti-philosophical Muslim thinkers in the modern Arab world, the rejection of rationalism and logic is not much based on Ibn Taimiya's arguments. Hassan al-Bana simply stated as a dogma that mankind is unable to apprehend God by reason, so we should keep away from philosophical theories and logical proofs. And Said Khut, the founder of the radical wing of his brotherhood, who was sentenced to death by the Egyptian president, Jamaaluddin al-Dunasar in 1966, thought that rational logic was a bad way to reach God or religious dogmas. He contrasts it to what he calls emotional logic, al-Mantir al