Islam, a Way of Life
Theological work
By: Philip Khuri Hitti
Date: 1970
Source: Hitti, Philip Khuri. Islam, a Way of Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970, 2–4, 8–11, 54, 55.
About the Author: Philip Khuri Hitti (1886–1978) was born in Shimlan, Lebanon. He earned his bachelor's degree from the American University of Beirut in 1908 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1915. He taught at Columbia from 1915 to 1920, at the American University of Beirut from 1920 to 1926, and at Princeton from 1926 to 1954. He was professor emeritus at Princeton from 1954 to 1978. He authored over a dozen books on Islam and the Arab culture.
Introduction
In the 1970s, Islam was the religion of only a few million adherents in the United States, even though the world's population of Muslims was approaching almost one billion. The followers of Islam in the United...
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