Abstract
The question of attitudes towards Islam among the West Bank professional elite was one of a number of subjects investigated in an interdisciplinary field study carried out by the Shibah Center and the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University. (1) The study was conducted in three towns in the northern part of the West Bank — Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm — between 1971–1973. (2) The professional elite was defined in this study as the members of the liberal professions (i. e. those both in public service, and in private practice) and employees in public administration from the medium rank upwards. At the time the research was conducted, this category comprised approximately 300 persons, of whom 271 were interviewed. (3) 94 % of the interviewees were Muslim. For purposes of comparison, this study was extended to include a sample of high school teachers. Interviews were conducted in Arabic in the interviewees’ homes or places of occupation. The interviews were usually conducted as informal conversations, covering almost a hundred questions and lasting, on average, for four hours.
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