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Arab-Islamic Political Culture:
A Key to Understanding Arab Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

David Bukay

ACPR Publishers, 2003, 136 pages


This book shows how Western policy attitudes are based on misconceptions concerning Arab Muslim political culture and how a clearer grasp should impact on them; most of all, it displays how this political culture contributes to the Arab-Israel conflict.

 

Chapters include:

  • Introduction: Globalization and Civilization
     

  • The First Cultural Flaw in Thinking: The Arab Personality
     

  • The Second Cultural Flaw in Thinking: The Influence of Islam on Political Conceptions and Positions
     

  • The Third Cultural Flaw in Thinking: Arab-Islamic Anti-Semitism
     

  • The Fourth Cultural Flaw in Thinking: Civil-Democratic Society
     

  • The Fifth Cultural Flaw in Thinking: The Issues of Economic Well Being and Education
     

  • The Sixth Cultural Flaw in Thinking: Suicide Terrorism and Political Arrangements
     

  • The Seventh Cultural Flaw in Thinking: Perceptual Mantras and Operational Paradoxes
     

  • The Eighth Cultural Flaw in Thinking: Negotiation Management
     

  • Glossary of Islamic Terms
     

For the complete text of the book, click here.