History of the Arabs
History of the Arabs ( . English for History of the Arabs ) is a classic of Arabic Studies from the American - Lebanese Islamic scholar Philip Khuri Hitti (1886 to 1978), about the history of the Arabs from the beginning of Islam in the Middle Ages, their conquests, their empires the Time of their greatness and decline. The work opens up a rich and very instructive panorama of the history of the Arab-Islamic countries. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1937 . It had many editions and editions and was a standard work for a long time.
The work is divided into six parts: I The Pre-Islamic Age; II The Rise of Islam and the Caliphal State; III The Umayyad and 'Abbāsid Empires; IV The Arabs in Europe: Spain and Sicily; V The Last of the Medieval Muslim States; Ottoman Rule and Independence (dt. I. The pre-Islamic age II. The rise of Islam and the caliphate III The empires of the Umayyads and Abbasids IV. The Arabs in Europe: Spain and Sicily V. The last of the medieval Muslim states VI. Ottoman rule and independence ).
After its publication, the book was translated into various languages and was for a long time considered by scholars around the world to be the authoritative work on Arabic-Islamic history. The 10th edition of the work first appeared in 1970. In a more recent edition, Walid Khalidi provides a brief overview of the history and content of the book.
An Arabic translation of the work was published by Dār Ġandūr in Beirut in 1990 .
The Chinese scholar of Islam and Koran translator Ma Jian translated it into Chinese after the tenth edition of 1970 , published by the Commercial Press in 1979.
References and footnotes
literature
- Philip Khuri Hitti : History of the Arabs. Revised: 10th Edition, Palgrave Macmillan; 2002 (first 1970), ISBN 0-333-63142-0
Web links
- A talk with Philip Hitti
- Alabo tongshi (Yang Keli)