History of the Arabs (book)
Author | Philip Khuri Hitti |
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Country | United States |
Publisher | Macmillan Group |
Publication date | 1937 |
Pages | 767 |
Text | History of the Arabs online |
History of the Arabs is a book written by
According to Hitti's own account, in 1927 the editor
In his History of the Arabs,[3] Hitti denies the idea of an Arab army destroyed by Charles Martel, stressing that the caliph had just died and that these Arabs preferred Spain to more northerly areas. For him, it is not the defeat of the Arabs which enabled the possibility of the Occident, as if the Arabs had to be defeated so that the Occident could exist. Instead, it is the transmission of the knowledge of the Mediterranean basin and beyond, and thus the dialogue between the two banks of the Mediterranean, which leads to the foundation of the Occident.
Reviews
History of the Arabs has been described as an excellent work while keeping in mind that its bulk was written in 1937 making the citations hard to use.[4]
References
- ISSN 1937-5239.
- ^ a b c d A Talk With Philip Hitti
- ^ Hitti, P. K. (Philip Khuri). (1951). History of the Arabs. 5th ed. New York: Macmillan.
- ^ Osti, Letizia (2003-05-01), Review of Hitti, Philip K., History of the Arabs, H-Mideast-Medieval, H-Review, retrieved 2020-10-15
- ISBN 0-333-63142-0