| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 466 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-446) and index. |
| 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. Dual division -- 4. Conflict proneness -- XIV. Conflict resolution and "conferentiasis". 1. Conflict resolution -- 2. "Conferentiasis" -- XV. The question of Arab stagnation. 1. The message of history -- 2. Critical views -- 3. Where do we go from here? -- 4. Stagnation and nationalism -- 5. Five stages -- 6. The enemy as exemplar -- XVI. The psychology of Westernization. 1. The Jinni of the West -- 2. Egypt--a case history -- 3. The issue of technological domination -- 4. Focus, values, and change -- 5. Five dominant concerns -- 6. Western standards and mass benefits -- 7. The sinister West -- 8. The hatred of the West -- 9. Arabs and Turks -- 10. Facing the future -- Conclusion -- Postscript: the last ten years. 1. The reaction to the October War -- 2. Oil, labor, and planning -- 3. Advances in education -- 4. The women's position -- 5. New conflicts -- 6. The quest for unity -- 7. The Federation of Arab Republics: a case history -- 8. Conclusion -- Tables -- Appendix I. The judgment of historians: Spengler and Toynbee -- Appendix II. The Arab world and Spanish American: a comparison -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Arabs.
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| ISBN |
1578261171 |
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