Philip K. Hitti
Lebanese-American academic and authority on the Middle East (1886-1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]