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- Albert Habib Hourani was one of the most prominent scholars of Middle Eastern history for much of the second half of the 20th century. He was born in Manchester, England, the son of Soumaya Rassi and Fadlo Issa Hourani, immigrants from what is now South Lebanon. His brothers were George Hourani and Cecil Hourani. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Scottish Presbyterianism and his father was an elder of the local church in Manchester. Hourani himself, however, converted to Catholicism in adulthood. Hourani was educated in Manchester and London before attending Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, Economics and History (with an emphasis on international relations in the politics section of the degree), graduating first in his class in 1936. During World War II, he worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and in the office of the British Minister of State in Cairo. After the war's end, he worked at the Arab Office in Jerusalem and London, where he helped prepare the Arab case for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. He began his academic career, which would occupy the rest of his life, in 1948, teaching at Magdalen College, St. Antony's College (where he created and directed the college's Middle East Centre), the American University of Beirut, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard. He ended his academic career as Fellow of St. Antony's College and Reader in the History of the Modern Middle East at Oxford. Hourani trained more academic historians of the modern Middle East than any other university historian of his generation. Today his students can be found on the faculties of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, MIT and the University of Haifa, among others. Hourani's most popular work is A History of the Arab Peoples (1991), a readable introduction to the history of the Middle East and an international best seller. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1789-1939 (1962) is one of the first scientific attempts at a comprehensive analysis of the nahda, the Arab revival of the nineteenth century, and the opening of the Arab world to modern European culture, and remains one of the major works on this subject. Syria and Lebanon (1946) and Minorities in the Arab World (1947) are other major works. He also wrote extensive works on the orientalist perspective on Middle Eastern cultures through the 18th and 19th centuries, and he developed the influential concept of the "urban notables" -- political and social elites in provincial Middle Eastern cities and towns that served as intermediaries between imperial capitals (such as Istanbul under the Ottoman Turks) and provincial society. The top book prize in the Middle Eastern studies field is named the Albert Hourani Book Award and it is given annually by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). Hourani was an Honorary Fellow of both MESA and the American Historical Association (AHA). Hourani married Odile Wegg-Prosser in 1955, while teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford. He died in Oxford at the age of 77. Mrs. Odile Hourani (b. 1914) died in 2003, shortly after the tenth anniversary of her husband's death. They are both buried at Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford. Their daughter, Dr. Susanna Hourani, survives them. She is Professor of Pharmacology and Head of Department in the School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences of the University of Surrey, UK.
- Albert Habib Hourani war ein Orientalist, ein Experte vor allem für die Geschichte des Nahen Ostens. Er wurde als Sohn von Einwanderern aus dem Süd-Libanon in Manchester, England geboren. Seine Familie war vom Griechisch-orthodoxen Glauben zum Schottischen Presbyterianertum konvertiert und sein Vater war ein Diakon an der örtlichen Kirche in Manchester. Hourani selbst trat zum katholischen Glauben über, als er erwachsen war. Hourani besuchte Schulen in Manchester und London, bevor er sich am Magdalen College (Oxford) einschrieb, wo er Philosophie, Politikwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaften studierte. Er machte seinen Abschluss als Studiengangbester des Jahrgangs 1939. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges arbeitete er am Royal Institute of International Affairs, im Büro des Britischen Außenministeriums in Kairo und als Regierungs-Attaché beim dortigen britischen Armeehauptquartier. Nach Kriegsende war er an Vorbereitungen für das Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry beteiligt. Seine akademische Karriere, die ihn für den Rest seines beruflichen Lebens beschäftigte, führte ihn ab 1948 an das Magdalen College bzw. das St. Antony's College (wo er die Nahostabteilung gegründet und geleitet hat) und an die Amerikanische Universität Beirut. Er lehrte außerdem als Gastprofessor, unter anderem in Harvard und Chicago. Hourani heiratete 1955 Odile Wegg-Prosser (* 1914), als er am Magdalen College lehrte. Er starb im Alter von 77 Jahren in Oxford, seine Witwe Odile Hourani im Jahre 2003. Seine populärsten Arbeiten sind A History of the Arab Peoples (1991), eine einfach lesbare Einführung in die Geschichte der arabischen Welt und des Nahen Ostens. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1789-1939 (1962) ist einer der ersten wissenschaftlichen Versuche einer umfassenden Analyse der nahda, der arabischen Wiedergeburt im neunzehnten Jahrhundert und der Öffnung der arabischen Welt für die moderne europäische Kultur und immer noch eine der wichtigsten Arbeiten auf diesem Gebiet. Syria and Lebanon (1946) und Minorities in the Arab World (1947) sind andere wichtige Bücher Houranis. Er schrieb auch ausführliche Werke über die orientalistischen Ansichten der nahöstlichen Kulturen während des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts.
- Albert Habib Hourani était un important historien orientaliste anglophone d'origine libanaise.
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