Philip K. Hitti
Philip Khuri Hitti was a Lebanese-American professor and scholar at Princeton and Harvard University, and authority on Arab and Middle Eastern history, Islam, and Semitic languages. He almost single-handedly created the discipline of Arabic studies in the United States. His grandniece was Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986.
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- Born in
- Shemlan
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityAmerican University of Beirut
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jibrāʼīl Jabbūr
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1886
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