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DIED. Philip K. Hitti, 92, Syrian-born Orientalist and professor of Semitic literature at Princeton (1926-54) who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islamic cultures in the U.S.; in Princeton...
Philip K. Hitti, Professor emeritus of Islamic Studies at Princeton University, will teach History 129, "History of Mediaeval Islamic Civilization" and History 229, "seminar in Islamic Histry" this year...
...courses were originally to have been given by Dr. Duri of the Higher Teacher's College, Baghdad. Professor Hitti was one of ten distinguished professors mentioned by Time magazine who retired last June. He created the department of Islamic Studies at Princeton University, and is the author of numerous books, among them "A History of the Arabs," which has passed through many editions, "A History of Syria and Lebanon," and "The Arabs...
...format is the same as the U.S. edition's but with only about 75% of its editorial content. At Pleasantville-to counsel on what would be of Arab interest and what might collide with Moslem taboos-is a group of five Arabic advisers, topped by Dr. Philip K. Hitti, acting chairman of Princeton University's department of Oriental languages...
...representatives are:--Charles D. Huvvey, General Secretary; Elmer Yelton, Associate General Secretary; Phillip Hitti, Near East; Oscar Gacitua, Latin America; Daniel Fu, China; M. Shimadzu, Japan; and H. A. Aguiling, Philippines...
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