it was historically part of Syria, and "the Sunday schools have done a great deal of harm to us because by smearing the walls of classrooms with maps of Palestine, they associate it with the Jews in the minds of the average American and Englishman." He traced the history of Palestine back 7000 years. All that time, he said, it had been the immemorial home of the Arabs. He asserted that Zionism was indefensible and unfeasible on moral, historic and practical grounds. It was an imposition on the Arabs of an alien way of life which they resented and to which they would never submit. Works The Syrians in America (1924) The origins of the Druze people and religion: with extracts from their sacred writings (1928) An Arab-Syrian Gentleman in the Period of the Crusades: Memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh (1929) History of the Arabs (1937) The Arabs: A Short History (1943) History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine (1951) Syria: A Short History (1959), the condensed version of the 1951 History of Syria: including Lebanon and Palestine The Near East in History (1961) Islam and the West (1962) Lebanon in History (1957) Makers of Arab History (1968) Islam: A Way of Life (1970) Capital cities of Arab Islam (1973) See also Islamic scholars Jawad Ali References External links Finding aid for the Philip Khuri Hitti papers at the Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries. A selection of letters and photographs from the Philip Khuri Hitti papers have been digitized and are available through the Digitizing Immigrant Letters project, Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries. A Talk With Philip Hitti Arabs from the Ottoman Empire Historians of the Middle East 1886 births 1978 deaths Harvard University staff University of Utah faculty Lebanese Maronites American University of Beirut alumni 20th-century Lebanese historians Academic staff of the American University of Beirut Orientalists Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Arabic–English translators