Philip Khuri Hitti

Philip Khuri Hitti (* June 24, 1886 in Shemlan, today's Lebanon, † December 24, 1978 in Princeton ) was an American Islamic scholar of Lebanese origin.

Hitti, Maronite denomination of Christian, was trained at the American Mission School presbyteritanischen in Suq al - Gharb and at the American University of Beirut. After he graduated in 1908, he taught at the American University of Beirut before moving to Columbia University, where he taught Semitic languages ​​and in 1915 earned a PhD. After the First World War, he returned to the American University of Beirut back and taught there until 1926. In February 1926 him a chair at Princeton University was offered, he occupied until his retirement in 1954. He was both Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages ​​. After he officially retired in, he took a position at Harvard. He also taught at the Summer School of the University of Utah and George Washington University in Washington, DC He then had a research post at the University of Minnesota. Philip Hitti created the discipline of Arabic in the United States almost single-handedly. His most famous work is his History of the Arabs ( English), which went through many editions.

In 1945 he served the Arab delegation at the peace conference in San Francisco that founded the United Nations, as a counselor.

Hitti said in 1946 in the Anglo - American Committee of Inquiry on the Palestinian question, " no such thing as Palestine does not exist, in the history absolutely not ".

The astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe, who in the explosion of the space shuttle " Challenger " was killed in 1986, was a great-niece of Philip Hitti.

Publications (selection)

  • History of the Arabs, Macmillan, London 1937; 10th revised edition with a new preface by Walid Khalidi by Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2002, ISBN 0-333-63141-2
  • The origins of the Druze people and religion: with extracts from Their sacred writings (1928 )
  • An Arab - Syrian gentleman in the Period of the Crusades. Memoirs of Usamah ibn - Munqidh 1929; reissued by Columbia University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-231-12124-5
  • History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine, Macmillan, New York 1957
  • The Arabs (1960 )
  • Lebanon in History, Macmillan, London 1967
  • Makers of Arab History, Macmillan, London 1968
  • The Near East in History. A 5000 Year Story, van Nostrand, Princeton 1961
  • Islam and the West ( 1962)
  • Islam. A Way of Life ( 1970)
  • Capital cities of Arab Islam ( 1973)
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