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Philip K. Hitti

1886 - 1978

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Philip Khuri Hitti (Arabic: فيليب خوري حتي; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip K. Hitti has received more than 66,253 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Philip K. Hitti is the 404th most popular historian (down from 320th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 98th in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Philip K. Hittis by language

Over the past year Philip K. Hitti has had the most page views in the with 14,683 views, followed by Arabic (7,293), and Bengali (2,286). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malay (63.78%), Turkish (49.50%), and Kurdish (Kurmanji) (38.54%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Philip K. Hitti ranks 404 out of 561. Before him are Martin van Creveld, Agnes Arber, Gerhard Ritter, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Stanley Morison, and Olena Apanovych. After him are Vladimir Ćorović, Florian Cajori, Chimalpahin, Daniel Pipes, Carl Benjamin Boyer, and Henrik Gabriel Porthan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Philip K. Hitti ranks 226. Before him are John M. Stahl, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Manuel Bandeira, Bogoljub Jevtić, Eugene Burton Ely, and Elise Ottesen-Jensen. After him are Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Angela Piskernik, Barbara Karinska, Edward Lindberg, Hans von Blixen-Finecke, and Francis Biddle. Among people deceased in 1978, Philip K. Hitti ranks 176. Before him are Gotthard Handrick, Ali Soilih, Giuseppe Impastato, Victor Hasselblad, Alexander Belov, and Jānis Daliņš. After him are Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Sandy Denny, Edward Lindberg, John Lyng, Philip Ahn, and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Philip K. Hitti ranks 107 out of 145. Before him are Fares Fares (1973), Rula Ghani (1948), Maher Zain (1981), Elias Khoury (1948), Najwa Karam (1966), and Sanchuniathon (-150). After him are Nadine Labaki (1974), Rabih Abou-Khalil (1957), Khalil Taha (1932), Aram I (1947), John Dolmayan (1973), and Layal Abboud (1982).

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Among HISTORIANS In Lebanon

Among historians born in Lebanon, Philip K. Hitti ranks 1. 

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