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would require surgery. Nonetheless, Hourani continued to teach, travel, and write, becoming President of the American Oriental Society in 1978, lecturing at UCLA in 1979, and being recognized as a Distinguished Professor of Islamic Thought and Civilization in 1980. He retired in 1983 and, as a result of his heart condition, died in September 1984. His final book and final contribution,
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This work would be continued after 1967 in the University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy, where Hourani would teach until his retirement. In 1971, his work on Abd al-Jabbar was published. That summer, however, a latent cardiac condition led to the first of two heart attacks. The second, in 1977,
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viii, 131 pages, 8 plates. Princeton University Press, 1951. Reprinted Beirut: Khayats, 1963; New York: Verry, 1968; Octagon Press, 1978. Arabic translation by Yusuf Bakr. Cairo: Franklin Press, 1958. Persian translation by Mohamed Mogadam. Tehran: Franklin Press,
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233 pages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956; London: Allen and Unwin, 1956, Reprinted, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
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George spent his early years studying Greek and Latin language and literature, winning successive scholarships at the
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Upon completing his dissertation on 9th and 10th century Arab seafaring, Hourani secured a lecturing position at the
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in Jerusalem. In 1950, Hourani was invited to join the newly founded Department of Near Eastern Studies at the
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129 pages. London: Luzac and Co., for E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series and UNESCO, 1961. (A translation of
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xx, 56 pages, 2 plates (A critical edition of the Arabic text). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1959.
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Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1985), pp. 3-6
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Islamic Theology and Philosophy: Studies in Honor of George F. Hourani.
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Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times.
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George Hourani was born into a prosperous British family of Lebanese
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viii, 261 pages. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.
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British philosopher, historian, and classicist (1913 – 1984)
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280 pages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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with introduction and notes). Reprinted, 1967, 1976.
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Averroes on the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy.
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Manchester
Buffalo, New York
Balliol College, Oxford
Princeton University
Government Arab College
University of Michigan
University at Buffalo
Islamic philosophy
classical Islamic rationalism
ethics
Christian
Didsbury, Manchester
Albert Hourani
Mill Hill School
Balliol College, Oxford
Philip Hitti
Government Arab College
University of Michigan
Mu'tazilite
Abd al-Jabbar
Kitab fasl al-maqal
JSTOR
601535
JSTOR
3131723
http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/george-f-hourani%E2%80%A8
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1984 deaths
Academics from Greater Manchester

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