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Or what would you add if you were writing a version for ? See 1 question about The Arab Mind…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Arab Mind. A very unscientific, biased and full-of-lies-book. I am really astonished at how the author claimed living between Arabs, yet most of what he talks about is nonsense.
I will try to make my review as short as possible, but i want to indicate something that no one talked about; Patai was Jewish, he lived in the time of Arab-Israeli conflicts, so i can't trust him a bit, and it's understandable that he might sided with Israel, but come on, why relying on his account while i have much better books A very unscientific, biased and full-of-lies-book.
Now let me start : Mothers don't caress their sons' penises, this is a twisted and hideous idea i don't know where he got it from. His obsession with Bedouin life-style and values and elevating them over Islam are grave errors. Pre-Islam Bedouins used to bury their daughters, i don't see that happen now.
The bride i assume! Not true at all. Circumcision are done on the first week after the boy is born. Now for God's sake who would believe such crap? Arabs are known to be jealous on their women and care for women's dignity.
Ask any primary schools student and hewill tell you the biggest Muslim country is Indonesia.. The author lied again.
Wi-Fi signals?. What we consider bad is pre-marital sex, because it destroys societal foundations and spread adultery and fornication. The same with Syrian's culture Bedouin or city dweller or peasant. Sunni Muslim or Shiite.. I can go on and on and on. But that's enough for this point. For my part i am 29 and i have never had sex before, not even a kiss because i want to get married and see that later, also i make sure that none of my two sisters does anything like that, and the best thing is that i don't have to give them advice as they know that it's in their best interest.
It's so common that people save themselves till after marriage. I got tired of writing all these, but believe me it's a worthless book, it's only use could be to study how propaganda against certain people works.
If you need a respected un-biased book on Muslims and of course Arab Mind, Check Graham Fuller's "A World without Islam" it explains nearly everything on the subject and the best thing is that it was written by a man who studied Middle-East and Islam and worked for the CIA as an adviser, so he knows what he talks about.
View all 4 comments. Jun 13, Charles Haywood rated it it was amazing. The first group, for whom ideology matters more than reality, hate this book. The second group, largely military, for whom their lives depend on an accurate perception of reality, love this book. This divergence alone suggests the book is worth reading. Its rise to semi-prominence began in , when during the Iraq War the American military, desperately short of soldiers who knew anything about Arab culture, but desperately needing to insert thousands of soldiers into that culture, began informally distributing the book to officers.
To all accounts, the book was extremely useful to those officers. However, the book also came in for a great deal of criticism, led by agitprop artist Seymour Hersh, because it is not politically correct. It dispassionately analyzes Arab culture, and offers a clear roadmap for interacting with that culture. But it also recognizes that Arab culture is very different from American and Western culture, and in some ways inferior.
This dispassionate analysis does not serve the ends of the social justice warrior crowd, so they cry racism. The irony of all this is that Patai actually is very sympathetic to Arabs. He likes Arabs and Arab culture. He lived for decades in Jerusalem pre-Israel. And, in fact, his conclusions about Arab culture he last updated the book in , shortly before he died, though it was first published in are generally quite optimistic about the future of Arabs and Arab culture.
If you actually read his book, you see that Patai is far from anti-Arab. But you have to read the book. The critics never have any specifics—they object to the very idea that Arab culture could be perceived as anything but wonderful in all regards.
No need to read any books or address any arguments! More time to join the latest howling low-information Twitter mob! He emphasize that this involves generalizations of qualities that contain many variations among individuals. So the criticisms are misplaced. Patai writing in was merely interested in objectivity; Nydell in propaganda.
But the facts they offer the reader are close to identical. Patai and Nydell also address improvidence, predestination, the tendency to substitute words for action, violence of words, control of temper, etc. Patai also addresses what to Westerners are obscure points like what is apparently a very large and very important cultural difference between Arabs from the north and south of the Arabian peninsula, so-called dual descent, either Qays or Yaman. Another important point to make when reading and analyzing Patai is that he focuses relatively little on Islam.
Nowadays, Islam gets all the ink in the West, for obvious reasons. Yet, with one exception, none of them is part of the ethical system of the Koran; and conversely again with the same exception , none of the ethical teachings of the Koran have developed into a dominant feature in the actual Arab ethics of virtue.
He is not remotely obsessed with Arab sexual behavior, contrary to occasional criticisms, but he does discuss it, as he should. Occasionally the book shows its age, though generally its analysis is timeless. But then, Patai, as I say, was very positive about the Arab future, in a way that has not been borne out in the past three decades. Contrary to his hopes, though, Arab unity has declined greatly, with the fragmentation of nation-states brought by the Arab Spring, and the rise of crypto-Kharijites like ISIS.
One point about the Kindle version—it literally makes the frequent Arabic phrases that Patai uses unreadable. Weird symbols like apples are substituted for Arabic characters. We, and our government officials, soldiers, businesspeople and diplomats, do ourselves no favors by deliberately blinding ourselves to reality, both its ugly and its pretty faces.
Ignoring reality is the luxury of an opulent society. A short-lived luxury, usually, if history is any guide.
Feb 08, Michael O'Brien rated it it was amazing. While at times it gets a bit academic, overall, this is an outstanding reference for those trying to gain a better understanding of Arab culture and society and the drivers and influences behind them. I enjoyed this book a great deal and found its information absolutely fascinating. Apr 29, Tariq Mahmood rated it it was amazing Shelves: middle-east , religion.
For a detailed anthropological study of the Arab race, Raphael has indeed done a pretty thorough job. He has demonstrated the Arab conscience, both internal and external in great detail with countless examples from the current history.
Questions like why Western colonists are hated so much more than the Ottomons who colonized all of the Arab countries far longer, the Arab relationship with modernity, its treatment of women, episodes of sudden and inexplicable emotional outbursts are adequately c For a detailed anthropological study of the Arab race, Raphael has indeed done a pretty thorough job. Questions like why Western colonists are hated so much more than the Ottomons who colonized all of the Arab countries far longer, the Arab relationship with modernity, its treatment of women, episodes of sudden and inexplicable emotional outbursts are adequately covered by numerous examples from arabic literature.
I would highly recommend this valuable book to any one interested in the Arabic race. Read this before living in Saudi Arabia for two years Was an invaluable preparation for the different thought processes I'd find. I found more diversity among Saudis than the book lead me to expect, but it was right on in the different vector between Western and Middle eastern thought.
I rated it three because it was not then a very readable text. Hopefully accessibility has improved in later editions. No, I can't explain it in a few sentences. You need to read the book. Feb 24, Hassan rated it it was ok. Would not help you to understand Arab but rather judge them. It Also assume there is one Arab mind. Jun 15, Robert Krenzel rated it really liked it Shelves: reference. I read this book about a year and a half prior to my first deployment to Iraq.
I read it again prior to my second deployment, which had me embedded in an Iraqi unit. This book is not the absolute last word on the subject, but it is a useful introduction to Arab psychology and culture.
I still have quite a lot to learn, but "The Arab Mind" was an excellent starting point. Apr 27, Kameel Nasr rated it did not like it. This book became a standard text for American foreign service employees after it came out in the s and is responsible for distorting America's relationship with the Arab world. In a word, the book is racist.
It globs together hundreds of millions of people in a series of cliches and distortions. If the book was about any other ethnic group, African Americans, Roman Catholics, Latinos, there would be a thousand condemnations. Gore Vidal said that America never got it right with its interventi This book became a standard text for American foreign service employees after it came out in the s and is responsible for distorting America's relationship with the Arab world.
Gore Vidal said that America never got it right with its intervention in the Arab world, and one reason is this very flawed work. Sep 03, Wissam El Cheikh Hassan rated it did not like it. It started somewhat interestingly with good historical and social contextual analysis of the Arabs. At some point after about a third of the book it seems the writing just starting putting words next to each other without any sense about Arabs.
As a work of sexual fantasy it might be a It started somewhat interestingly with good historical and social contextual analysis of the Arabs. As a work of sexual fantasy it might be a mediocre read, but nothing more. I'd say this is one of the few books I've seen written about Arabs by a non-Arab person, but in a fair and well explained manner. I might not really agree with all things brought in by the author in this book, however, I do accept them as being "what he sees and believes", especially with the fact that those view are presented by the author mostly with some supportive evidence.
This book has been recognized as one of the seminal works in the field of Middle Eastern studies. This penetrating analy I'd say this is one of the few books I've seen written about Arabs by a non-Arab person, but in a fair and well explained manner. The book 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.
Dec 23, Adam Glantz rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Noone. This is a disappointing book from a scholar with such great credentials. So many fallacies. Terrible stuff. Feb 23, Wachlin Hotmail rated it really liked it Shelves: history , culture.
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The Arab Mind Considered. Click Get Books and find your favorite books in the online library. Ad Access everything you want to read online in seconds. Raphael Patai is well qualified to write a book on the cognitive assumptions and basic personality traits of the Arabic-speaking peoples. The Arab Mind should nonetheless be mandatory reading for all government workers in the Middle East as it is truly an indispensible guide through a culture that has been around longer than our own.
One book that was frequently cited was The Arab Mind a study of Arab culture and psychology first published in by Raphael Patai a cultural anthropologist who taught at among other universities Columbia and Princeton and who died in The Arab Mind Bound proposes that Arab culture has been stifled by two major problems. The first is that of religion misinterpreted.
De Atkine Foreword by Rating details ratings 35 reviews Since its original publication in the revised edition of Raphael Patais The Arab Mind has been recognized as one of the seminal works in the field of Middle Eastern studies.
Create free account to access unlimited books fast download and ads free. Progress and Modernity in Arab Societies. The Arab Mind testifies to the scope and range of the Arab mentality with broad sweeps of the pen and minute and subtle detail to provide an in depth study for students and scholars alike.
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