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The Arab mind

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This classic and informative book delves deeply into Middle-Eastern culture and thinking, including effects of the structure of Arabic on representation of concepts which can otherwise be traps to a western thinker. This is a must read for anyone attempting to understand communication gaps between East and West, and Arab behavior which may otherwise seem inexplicable. At the same time, the author is careful to distinguish social norms and tendencies from individual and local variations.

The Kindle edition, with its easy portability and convenient annotation, comes with a downside, at least in the Android Kindle app: special characters, especially in transliteration of foreign characters is *maddening*, with currency symbols and other random artifacts spattering Arabic words and names. The author, unfortunately, does not use one of the later pure-ASCII transliteration schemes, and the electronic version seems to have had poor Unicode character conversion. This would be an annoyance only, except it often breaks search within the book and copy-and-search *outside* the book, as well as making note-taking non-trivial.

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171110989

306.089 PAT a

Z. HANDIMAN

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Call Number

306.089 PAT a

Publisher

New York : Charles Schribner., 1983

Collation

xvi, 435p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-684-17810-9

Classification

306.089

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Subject(s)

CULTURES AND INSTITUTIONS - ARABS

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