The Arab mind / Raphael Patai.

1. The Arabs and the world. leaves 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 eth