biography
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Hitti, Philip K(huri)
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| (1886–1978)
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| biography:
| Educator, historian, and writer, born in Shimlan, Lebanon (then part of Syria). He studied at the American University of Beirut (1908) and went to the USA in 1913. He earned his PhD at Columbia University (1915) and became a naturalized citizen in 1920. He was founder of the Syrian Education Society (1916) and taught Arabic literature at Princeton (1926–54). He wrote widely acclaimed books, including History of the Arabs (1937) and A Short History of the Near East (1966). |
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