Essays - Winter 2005

What We Got Wrong

How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions

By Lawrence Rosen

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Lawrence Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of The Culture of Islam and The Justice of Islam.