History of the Arabs from the Earliest Times to the Present - Softcover

Philip K Hitti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333098714 ISBN 13: 9780333098714

Publisher: Palgrave, 1960

Synopsis

This classic history of the Arab peoples is a work of great thoroughness and insight which contains much to satisfy general readers as well as scholars. Here is the story of the rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, its conquests, its empire, its time of greatness and of decay, unrolling one of the richest and most instructive panoramas in history. For this reissue of the tenth edition, Walid Khalidi gives a brief overview of the history and content of the book, and emphasis's the vital importance of Philip K. Hitti's magisterial and scholarly work to on-going attempts to bridge the Arab/Western cultural divide

About this title

About the Author

PHILIP K. HITTI was born in Lebanon in 1886 and from 1913 til his death in 1978 lived for the most part in USA, teaching first at Columbia and later at Princeton, from which he retired in 1954 as Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages.

Review

The outstanding quality and merit of Professor Hitti's book is the abundance and facility of its references to original and primary sources, and the richness of atmosphere in which every page is steeped.' - New York Times

'Philip Hitti's splendid masterwork...[is] an essential purchase for all our libraries...' - David Sasha, Sepharic Heritage Update

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333098714
• ISBN 13: 9780333098714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864