Philip K. Hitti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Philip K. Hitti

Lebanese orientalist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1886

Place of Birth: Lebanon

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1978

Profession: historian, university teacher, academic

Nationality: United States, Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Philip Khuri Hitti (Arabic: ????? ???? ???), (Shimlan 22 June 1886 – Princeton 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.