Abdul Latif Tibawi ( ar, عبد اللطيف الطيباوي, 1910–1981) was a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

historian and educationalist.

Biography

Born in

Taybet El-Muthalath Tayibe, also spelled Taibeh or Tayiba, ( ar, الطيبة, lit=the kind/benevolent, translit=aṭ-Ṭayyibah, South Levantine pronunciation: ; he, טַיִּבָּה) is an Arab city in central Israel, north east of Kfar Saba.TulKarem Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of ...

, he was one of the earliest graduates of the Arabic College, Dar Al-Mu’allimin, in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He read history and

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at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

and later earned a Ph.D from the

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in 1948. Prior to the

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he was a senior education officer in Jerusalem. He was in London when the crisis of 1948 unfolded. He became a

refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

and was appointed Lecturer in Comparative Education at the

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, London, where he taught until his retirement in 1977. Tibawi wrote extensively on many aspects of

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history in both English and

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. He established a fund for Palestinian postgraduate students at the

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Select bibliography

*''Arab Education In Mandatory Palestine'', Luzac, 1956 *''Jerusalem; Its Place in Islam and Arab History'', Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1969 *''British Interests In Palestine, 1800-1901'', Oxford University Press, 1961 *
Anglo-Arab Relations and The Question of Palestine, 1914-1921
'; Luzac, 1977 *''A Modern History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine'', Macmillan, St Martin's P., 1969 *''American interests In Syria, 1800-1901'', Clarendon Press, 1966 *''Islamic Education: Its Traditions and Modernization into the Arab National Systems'', Luzac, 1972 *''The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel'', London, 1978

References

*http://www.palestine-studies.org/ *http://www.allamaiqbal.com/publications/journals/review/apr00/20.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Tibawi, A L 1910 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Palestinian historians Palestinian refugees Palestinian emigrants to the United Kingdom Academics of the UCL Institute of Education