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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Arab mind
  name:
    name part: Patai, Raphael
    name part: 1910-1996
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2002
    edition: Rev. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 466 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Since its original publication in 1983, this book has been recognized as one of the seminal works in the field of Middle Eastern studies. This analysis unlocks the mysteries of Arab society to help us better understand a complex, proud and ancient culture. Discusses the upbringing of a typical Arab boy or girl, the intense concern with honor and courage, the Arabs' tendency toward extremes of behavior, and their ambivalent attitudes toward the West. Chapters are devoted to the influence of Islam, sexual mores, Arab language and Arab art, Bedouin values, Arab nationalism, and the pervasive influence of Westernization.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Preface to the 1983 edition -- Preface to the 1976 edition -- Preface: on a personal note -- A note on transliteration -- I. The Arabs and the world. 1. Islam, Middle East, Arabs -- 2. Who is an Arab? -- II. The group aspects of the mind -- III. Arab child-rearing practices. 1. The issue of severity -- 2. Differential evaluation of boys and girls -- 3. Lactation -- 4. Early roots of the male-female relationship -- 5. The boy enters the men's world -- 6. The girl remains in the women's world -- 7. Childhood rewards and adult achievement -- IV. Under the spell of language. 1. Arab and Arabic -- 2. The lure of Arabic -- 3. Rhetoricism -- 4. Exaggeration, overassertion, repetition -- 5. Words for actions -- 6. Time sense and verb tense -- V. The Bedouin substratum of the Arab personality. 1. The Bedouin ideal -- 2. Group cohesion -- VI. Bedouin values. 1. Hospitality -- 2. Generosity -- 3. Courage -- 4. Honor -- 5. Self-respect -- VII. The Bedouin ethos and modern Arab society. 1. Koranic and folk ethnics -- 2. Wajh or "face" -- 3. Shame -- 4. The Fahlawi personality -- 5. Aversion to physical labor -- VIII. The realm of sex. 1. Sexual honor -- 2. Sexual repression -- 3. Sexual freedom and sexual hospitality -- 4. Varieties of sexual outlet -- 5. Ambivalence and change -- IX. The Islamic component of the Arab personality. 1. Religion East and West -- 2. Predestination and personality -- 3. Improvidence -- X. Extremes and emotion, fantasy and reality. 1. Polarization -- 2. Control and temper -- 3. Hostility -- 4. Three functional planes: thoughts, words, actions -- XI. Art, music, and literature. 1. Decorative arts -- 2. Music -- 3. Literature -- 4. Toward Western forms -- XII. Bilingualism, marginality, and ambivalence. 1. Bilingualism and personality -- 2. Marginality -- 3. Cultural dichotomy: elites and masses -- 4. Ambivalence -- 5. Izdiwaj--split personality -- XIII. Unity and conflict. 1. The idea of Arab unity -- 2. Fighting: swords and words -- 3. Dua…
  note: Raphael Patai.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-446) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ma-----
  subject:
    topic: Arabs
  classification: DS36.77 .P37 2002
  classification: 305.892/7
  identifier: 1578261171
  identifier: 9781578261178
  identifier: 2001059406
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 011231
    record change date: 20151024122821.0
    record identifier: in00001674298