The world of Islam: studies in honour of Philip K. Hitti

Foreword /James Kritzeck and R. Bayly Winder --Part one : Islam and its antecedents --The meaning or Amānīy in Sürah 2:73 /Alfred Guillaume --Some similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam : an essay in comparative religion /Wilfred Cantwell Smith --Urf and law in Islam /Farhat J....

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Corporate Author: MacMILLAN & Co. Ltd. (Other)
Contributors: Kritzeck, James 1930- (Editor) ; Winder, Richard Bayly 1920-1988 (Editor) ; Hitti, Philip Khuri 1886-1978 (Honoree)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London MacMillan 1959
New York St. Martin's Press 1959
In:Year: 1959
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hitti, Philip Khuri 1886-1978 / Near East / Islam / Islamic countries / Islam / Collection of essays / Festschrift
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Hitti, Philip Khuri 1886-1978
B Hitti, Philip K (Philip Khuri) (1886-1978)
B Islam
B Hitti, Philip K
B Festschrift
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Summary:Foreword /James Kritzeck and R. Bayly Winder --Part one : Islam and its antecedents --The meaning or Amānīy in Sürah 2:73 /Alfred Guillaume --Some similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam : an essay in comparative religion /Wilfred Cantwell Smith --Urf and law in Islam /Farhat J. Ziadeh --The head upon the knees : a note to 1 Kings 18:42 /Rudolf Mach and John H. Marks --On the patriciate of Imru-al Qays /Irfan Kawar --Part two : The world of Medieval Islam --Some new light on the history of Kirmān in the first century of the Hijrah /George C. Miles --Al-Mushatta, Baghdād, and Wāsit /Oleg Grabar --The Arabic palimpsests of Mount Sinai /Aziz S. Atiya --Some biographical and bibliographical notes on Al-Hakīm Al-Tirmidhi /Nicholas L. Heer --Ridwān the Maligned /Robert W. Crawford --Ibn-Rushd's defence of philosophy /George F. Hourani --Ibn-al-Tiqtaqa and the fall of Baghdād /James Kritzeck --A fourteenth-century view of language /T.B. Irving --Part three : The modern near East --Abu-al-Duhūr, the Ruwalah Utfah /Jibra'il Jabbur --Islamic philately as an ancillary discipline /Harry W. Hazard --Ideological influences in the Arab revolt /C. Ernest Dawn --Arab unity : ideal and reality /Harold W. Glidden --The Turko-'Irāqi frontier and the Assyrians /John Joseph --Islamic literature in the post-war Iran /Yahya Armajani --Education in Al-Bahrayn /R. Bayly Winder --Lebanon, "Land of light" /Nabih Amin Faris --Americans from the Arab world /Morroe Berger.
Item Description:Festschrift Philip Khûri Hitti
"Studies in honour of Philip K. Hitti."
"A bibliography of works by Philip K. Hitti": pages 10-37 -- Includes bibliographical references