The Arab Mind (book)
Raphael Patai
Long Island City, New York: Hatherleigh Press, 2002.
rev. ed. 466 pages.
The Arab Mind is a non-fiction cultural psychology book by cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai, who also wrote The Jewish Mind. The book advocates a tribal-group-survival explanation for the driving factors behind Arab culture. It was first published in 1973, and later revised in 1983. A 2007 reprint was further "updated with new demographic information about the Arab world".
The book came to public attention in 2004 after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh writing for the New Yorker magazine revealed that the book was "the bible of the neocons on Arab behavior" to the effect that it was the source of the idea held by the US military officials responsible for the Abu Ghraib scandal that "Arabs are particularly vulnerable to sexual humiliation".
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