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Albert Hourani 🇬🇧

ألبرت حوراني (Known as "Hourani")
Historian, Oxford Professor, Author of 'A History of the Arab Peoples'
Born 31 March 1915 🇬🇧 Manchester, Great Britain
Passed Away 17 January 1993 Oxford, United Kingdom
Lifespan 77 years old
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"To write the history of a people is to approach their hopes, dilemmas, and achievements with sympathy, rigor, and truth."

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Preeminent Lebanese-British historian of the Middle East, author of the seminal masterworks 'Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age' and 'A History of the Arab Peoples'.

Biographical Record

Albert Habib Hourani was born in Manchester to a Lebanese Christian family originally from Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon and studied history and philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. Working for the Arab Office in London and Jerusalem during World War II, he gave testimony to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in 1946.

Hourani founded the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, mentoring generations of historians worldwide. His seminal 1962 study Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age is the definitive intellectual history of the Nahda, while his 1991 international bestseller A History of the Arab Peoples synthesized a millennium of Arab social, cultural, and political history with unmatched elegance and nuance.

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Wolvercote Cemetery
Oxford, United Kingdom
GPS: 51.7800, -1.2700
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