![]() ![]() But can we go beyond this, and find in Arabs, or in Orientals in general, some mystery other than that due to the mere fact of their living in different countries and speaking different tongues? In so far as we find such a mystery, may it not be due to the eyes with which we look at them?įor those who cannot travel, “the Arabs’ figure chiefly as political stories in newspapers. Of course this is true in a sense every people sees the world through the medium of its own language and from the standpoint of its own experience, and its ways of life and thought are opaque to others unless they make an effort of imagination. The purpose of this collection is to increase the reader’s understanding of the Arab World but to attempt this is to imply that there is something in the Arabs which needs to be explained - something mysterious and complex and unexpected. ![]()
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