Birth: NULL/NULL/1910 Death:NULL/NULL/1980
Born in Taybeh, near Tulkarem, in 1910; graduated from the Dar Al-Mu’allimin (the Teachers’ College) in Jerusalem in 1929; received a BA in History and Arabic Literature from the AUB the same year; worked as a history teacher in Palestine from 1929-31; became personal assistant to the Director of the Educational Dept. in 1931, serving in that post until 1935; then was District Inspector in Jaffa, Lydda and Gaza from 1935-41; continued his studies and earned a PhD from the University of London in 1948; taught at the University of London and at Harvard; also worked as a journalist; won the Monroe Award for his study on The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel (London, 1969); has authored numerous articles and several books, incl. British Interests in Palestine (1965), A Modern History of Syria, Including Lebanon and Palestine (London, 1969), Islamic Education: its Traditions and Modernization into the Arab National Systems (London, 1972) and Arabic and Islamic Themes: Historical, Educational and Literary Studies (1976); died in London in the 1980s.
