Philip K. Hitti
Philip Khuri Hitti (; 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. His grandniece was Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster in January 1986. Provided by WikipediaThe origins of the Islamic state : being a translation from the Arabic accompanied with annotations, geographic and historic notes of the Kitâb futûḥ al-buldân of al-Imâm abu-l ʻAb...
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Translation of : Futūh al-buldān.
Reprint of v. 1 of the 2-volume translation originally published 1916-24, which was issued also as thesis, Columbia University. :
xi, 518 pages ; 23 cm. :
Bibliographical footnotes.
