HITTI, Phillip K. History of the Arabs … Third Edition, revised.

HITTI, Phillip K. History of the Arabs … Third Edition, revised. London: Macmillan. 1946.

8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers (retaining price); pp. xix, 767, frontispiece in black and gold, illustrations and sketch maps in the text, two folding maps; wrapper with spotting and marginal flaws, a little spotting and offsetting from endpapers; very light spotting initially, ownership inscription, dated Oxford, 1946, on front fly-leaf; a good copy.

First published in 1937, all editions of this classic are rare. The revised tenth edition appeared in in 2002. This impressive tome is the result of Hitti's manuscript which was the basis of the graduate course he taught at Princeton, where the Lebanese scholar had established Arabic studies in the US. Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) was Maronite Lebanese born under the Ottomans. Following education in Beirut, he taught at Columbia and then Princeton Universities.

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