Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Arabs and the World -- Islam, Middle East, Arabs -- Who Is an Arab? -- The Group Aspects of the Mind -- Arab Child-Rearing Practices -- The Issue of Severity -- Differential Evaluation of Boys and Girls -- Lactation -- Early Roots of the Male-Female Relationship -- The Boy Enters the Men's World -- The Girl Remains in the Women's World -- Childhood Rewards and Adult Achievement -- Under the Spell of Language -- Arab and Arabic -- The Lure of Arabic -- Rhetoricism -- Exaggeration, Overassertion, Repetition -- Words for Actions -- Time Sense and Verb Tense -- The Bedouin Substratum of the Arab Personality -- The Bedouin Ideal -- Group Cohesion -- Bedouin Values -- Hospitality -- Generosity -- Courage -- Honor -- Self-Respect -- The Bedouin Ethos and Modern Arab Society -- Koranic and Folk Ethics -- Wajh or "Face" -- Shame -- The Fahlawi Personality -- Aversion to Physical Labor -- The Realm of Sex -- Sexual Honor -- Sexual Repression -- Sexual Freedom and Sexual Hospitality -- Varieties of Sexual Outlet -- Ambivalence and Change -- The Islamic Component of the Arab Personality -- Religion East and West -- Predestination and Personality -- Improvidence -- Extremes and Emotions, Fantasy and Reality -- Polarization -- Control and Temper -- Hostility -- Three Functional Planes: Thoughts, Words, Actions -- Art, Music, and Literature -- Decorative Arts -- Music -- Literature -- Toward Western Forms -- Bilingualism, Marginality, and Ambivalence -- Bilingualism and Personality -- Marginality.