This study deals with an unusual and absorbing topic: how the Arabs see and deal with reality and the implications this has for the nature of power in the Arab world. Tents and pyramids are, metaphorically, opposed mental images; the first signifies the absence of hierarchy and graded authority, the second the presence of both, Khuri argues that the Arabs perceive both social and physical reality as a series of discrete, non-pyramidal structures that are inherently equal in value - much like a Bedouin encampment composed of tents scattered haphazardly on a flat desert surface with no visible hierarchy.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Saqi Books
Published: 09/01/2000
ISBN: 9780863563348
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.46w x 0.68d