Philip K. Hitti
Philip Khuri Hitti (
Biography
Early life
Philip Khuri Hitti was born in the
Education and academic career
He was educated at an American
Opinion on Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine
In 1944 before a U. S. House committee, Hitti gave testimony in support of the view that there was no historical justification for a Jewish homeland in the Palestine. His testimony was reprinted in the Princeton Herald. In response,
Hitti... explained that there was actually no such entity as Palestine - never had been; it was historically part of Syria, and "the Sunday schools have done a great deal of harm to us because by smearing the walls of classrooms with maps of Palestine, they associate it with the Jews in the minds of the average American and Englishman."
He traced the history of Palestine back 7000 years. All that time, he said, it had been the immemorial home of the Arabs. He asserted that Zionism was indefensible and unfeasible on moral, historic and practical grounds. It was an imposition on the Arabs of an alien way of life which they resented and to which they would never submit.[6]
Works
- The Syrians in America (1924)
- 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)
- History of the Arabs (1937)
- The Arabs: A Short History (1943)[7]
- History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine (1951)[8]
- Syria: A Short History (1959), the condensed version of the 1951 History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine
- The Near East in History (1961)
- Islam and the West (1962)
- Lebanon in History (1957)
- Makers of Arab History (1968)
- Islam: A Way of Life (1970)
- Capital cities of Arab Islam (1973)
See also
- Islamic scholars
- Jawad Ali
References
- ^ Cook, Joan (28 December 1978). "PHILIP HITTI, EXPERT ON ARABIC CULTURE". The New York Times.
Mr. Hitti, who was the first director of Princeton's Near Eastern Studies program, was considered a leading authority in the United States on Arabic and Islamic culture and one of the first persons in any American university to appreciate and promote the importance of the Arab world in this country.
- ^ a b "Saudi Aramco World : A Talk With Philip Hitti". archive.aramcoworld.com.
History of the Arabs, first published in 1937 and now going into its tenth edition, is probably the single most important book ever published in America on the subject of Arabs. "There is no comparable book on the subject," an Arab historian in Beirut said recently. "On the Arabs alone, nothing in the West since 1937 has matched Hitti's contribution."
- ^ Lazkani, Souad (13 February 2021). "The U.S. Honors Late Astronaut With Lebanese Descent". the961.com. 961™.
Her maternal grandfather was of Lebanese Maronite descent and she was the great-niece of the renowned Lebanese-American historian and Harvard professor Philip Hitti.
- ^ "Jones | ASTP: Foreign Service Gateway". Archived from the original on 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ISBN 978-0-691-12094-2.
- ^ Crum, Bartley C. Behind The Silken Curtain. Page 25. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London. 1947.
- ISBN 9780895267061– via Google Books.
- ^ "Syria: A Short History". Macmillan co., New York. November 2, 1959 – via Internet Archive.
External links
- Finding aid for the Philip Khuri Hitti papers at the Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.
- A selection of letters and photographs from the Philip Khuri Hitti papers have been digitized and are available through the Digitizing Immigrant Letters project, Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.
- A Talk With Philip Hitti