# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-khuri-hitti
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:33:11.416Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-khuri-hitti"
name: "Philip Khuri Hitti"
slug: "philip-khuri-hitti"
description: "Philip Khuri Hitti 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. His grandniece was Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986."
tagline: "Lebanese-American academic and authority on the Middle East (1886-1978)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886-06-22"
deathDate: "1978-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.90637466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Khuri_Hitti"
    title: "Philip Khuri Hitti"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Hitti"
    title: "Philip K. Hitti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Khuri Hitti"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump