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Philip K. Hitti
Lebanese-American academic and authority on the Middle East (1886-1978)
Philip Khuri Hitti (Arabic: فيليب خوري حتي; 22 June 1886 – 24 December 1978) 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.[1][2] His grandniece was the now deceased NASA astronaut and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.[3]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Philip Khuri Hitti was born in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, on 22 June 1886, into a Maronite Christian family, in the village of Shemlan some 25 km southeast from Beirut, up in Mount Lebanon.
Education and academic career
[edit]He was educated at an American Presbyterian mission school at Suq al-Gharb and then at the Syrian Protestant College. After graduating in 1908 he taught there before moving to Columbia University, where he earned his PhD in 1915 and taught Semitic languages. After World War I he returned to Lebanon and taught there until 1926. In February 1926 he was offered a Chair at Princeton University, which he held until he retired in 1954. During World War II, he taught
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Philip Khuri Hitti papers
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Collection
Identifier: IHRC894
Abstract
Papers (1915-1978) of Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978), a Lebanese American scholar and college professor and authority on the Near East include personal correspondence; professional correspondence; lectures and speeches; book reviews; writings; personal memorabilia; tapes, films, photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and copies of United States sponsored archaeological dig contracts. Correspondents include Viola (Hitti) Winder, and Mrs. Philip K. Hitti.
Hitti’s papers (20 linear ft., 1915-1978) include personal correspondence, professional correspondence, manuscripts of and notes for lectures and speeches, book reviews, writings, personal memorabilia, tapes, films, photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and copies of United States sponsored archaeological dig contracts. Considerable information pertains to his role as a spokesperson for the Arab perspective in America on foreign affairs, including testimony provided at the founding of the United Nations. The collection is regarded as one of very few significant sets of primary source material available on the early history of the Arab American experience.
Selected items from the collect