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
Someone's bu!!$hi++ing, Lord, kum-bay-ya...
A review by the BoGlo?
Why not the NYT, or LA times, as well? :^)
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>.