Original sentence: "based on a fatally flawed set of assumptions -- most importantly, that there is one entirely homogenous Arab culture, derived from nomadic Bedouin culture.According to Emram Qureshi, the book's methodology is.According to an e-mail from Sondra Hale, a professor of anthropology and chair of the women's studies program at UCLA, it can "no longer be taken seriously".In his view the book is "emblematic of a bygone era of scholarship focused on the notion of a 'national character,' or personality archetype".Patai is criticized in passing at several points in Edward Said's book Orientalism
Edited sentence: "[a] methodology...itself based on a fatally flawed set of assumptions -- most importantly, that there is one entirely homogenous Arab culture, derived from nomadic Bedouin culture.As such, it is often considered a classic example of "Orientalist" scholarship; indeed, Patai is criticized in passing at several points in Edward Said's seminal study on the subject, Orientalism.Contemporary cultural anthropologists have described the book as archaic and dated, as relic of "a bygone era of scholarship" that can "no longer be taken seriously".The book is widely dismissed as being essentialist, reductionist, and unscientific, with