270 I n de x K hamanei, Ayatol lah Say yed A li, x v ii Khartoum, 165 K houri, Rami, 114 K ing, Peter, 137 k issing, 26 K rauthammer, Charles, x x iv, 117, 122­123 Kurds, 184 ­185, 187 Kurzman, Charles, 103 Kuwait, 38, 184, 199­201 L language, x v i, 87. See also A rabic lateness, 49­50, 6 4 Lebanon, xiv, 170 ­173 lef t hand, 56 Levant description of, 169­170 Iraq, 183­188, 214 Jordan, x iii, 122, 180 ­183 Lebanon, 170 ­173 mainstream Muslims, 101­102, 108­110 Mali, 149 mannerisms, speech, 93­94 manners, 14 manua l labor, 60 ­ 61 Marhaba, 48 marriage in A lgeria, 154 of cousins, 67­ 68 family-arranged, 67­ 68 intra-religious, 74 in Libya, 159 name changes af ter, 30 persona l questions about, 24 religious law and, 74 in Tunisia, 156 matchmaking, 24 McLough lin, Leslie J., 92 mea ls bringing gif t to, 53