Philip K. Hitti: Difference between revisions
Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hitti, Philip Khuri}} |
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hitti, Philip Khuri}} |
||
<!--- Use the DEFAULTSORT magic word to sort this article in all categories --->[[Category:Orientalists|Orientalists]] |
<!--- Use the DEFAULTSORT magic word to sort this article in all categories ---> |
||
[[Category:Arab]] |
|||
[[Category:Orientalists|Orientalists]] |
|||
[[Category:Historians of the Middle East]] |
[[Category:Historians of the Middle East]] |
||
[[Category:1886 births]] |
[[Category:1886 births]] |
||
Line 39: | Line 41: | ||
[[Category:American University of Beirut alumni]] |
[[Category:American University of Beirut alumni]] |
||
[[Category:Lebanese academics]] |
[[Category:Lebanese academics]] |
||
[[Category:Arab]] |
|||
[[Category:Arab scholars]] |
[[Category:Arab scholars]] |
||
Revision as of 22:26, 2 December 2008
Philip Khuri Hitti (فيليب خوري حتي in Arabic),(1886 - 1978), born in Shimlan, Ottoman Syria (now Lebanon), was a scholar of Islam and introduced the field of Arab culture studies to the United States. He was of maronite christian religion.
Biography
Hitti was educated at an American Presbyterian mission school at Suq al-Gharb and at the American University of Beirut. After graduating in 1908 he taught at the American University of Beirut before moving to Columbia University where he taught Semitic languages and won his PhD in 1915. After World War I he returned to American University of Beirut and taught there until 1926. In February 1926 he was offered a Chair at Princeton University which he held until he retired in 1954. He was both Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages. After formal retirement he accepted a position at Harvard. He also taught in the summer schools at the University of Utah and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He subsequently held a research position at the University of Minnesota. Philip Hitti almost single handedly created the discipline of Arabic Studies in the United States.
In 1945 he served as an advisor to the Arab delegation at the San Francisco Conference which established the United Nations.
Hitti was a distant relative of Christa McAuliffe, a teacher-astronaut who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. McAuliffe's mother was Hitti's niece.
Works
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png)
- History of the Arabs
- The Syrians in America (1924)
- The origins of the Druze people and religion: with extracts from their sacred writings (1928)
- An Arab-Syrian Gentlemen in the Period of the Crusades: Memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh (1929)
- History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine (1957)
- The Arabs (1960)
- Lebanon in History (1967)
- Makers of Arab History (1968)
- The Near East in History (1961)
- Islam and the West (1962)
- Islam: A Way of Life (1970)
- Capital cities of Arab Islam (1973)