[konaice]

Well don't believe everything you read in it.
Here is a review:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/05/30/misreading_the_arab_mind?mode=PF

[Reaganez]

"Well don't believe everything you read in it.
Here is a review:"

Don't believe every review you read,particularly when they quote "multicultural" academics.

[rogue yam]

Rather than plumbing some mythical "Arab mind," we should affirm the shared humanity that transcends our differences and binds us all together.

Someone's bu!!$hi++ing, Lord, kum-bay-ya...

[bill1952]

A review by the BoGlo?

Why not the NYT, or LA times, as well? :^)

[CatoRenasci]

I read Patai's The Arab Mind, having earlier read Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lewis' What Went Wrong, some of Ba'at Yeor's work on Dhimmitude, the Koran and a couple of dozen other works on the Middle East going back to Sir Richard Francis Burton's travels. I thought the book was spot on, though clearly written from a western perspective.

To an extent, you can judge a book by its enemies, and the people who really hate Patai's work are the lefty Edward Said types who glorify the Palestinians and long for a return of Arab power. Of course they won't like it: Why Patai is even a jew! Imagine, a son of monkeys having the temerity to write about the glorious Arab mind! Why, he barely has a mind, how can he understand the greatest civilization man has ever known? < /sarcasm>.