The Descent of Bolshvism

Politics & Social Sciences

Rihani, Ameen

Social Sciences

Franklin Classics

Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ibn Sa'oud of Arabia

Rihani

Reference

Routledge

When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the shores of the Mediterranean, to experience and document the land in intimate detail. Through his travelogue The Heart of Lebanon, Rihani brings his readers along by foot and by mule to explore rural villages like his childhood home of Freike, the flora and fauna of massive cedar forests, and archaeological sites that reveal the history of Lebanon. Meeting goatherds, healers, monks, and more along the way, Rihani offers more than vivid descriptions of the country's sweeping scenery. His candid and often humorous narration captures what he sees as the soul of Lebanon and its people. Allen's fluid translation transports English-language readers to an early twentieth-century rural Lebanon of the writer's time in a way that only Rihani's firsthand account can accomplish.

The Heart of Lebanon (Middle East Literature In Translation)

History

Middle East

Syracuse University Press

The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

First published in 1911, Ameen Rihani's Book of Khalid is widely considered the first Arab American novel. The semi autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to find work as peddlers in Lower Manhattan. After mixed success at immersing themselves in American culture, the two return to the Middle East at a time of turmoil following the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Khalid attempts to integrate his Western experiences with Eastern spiritual values, becoming an absurd, yet all too serious, combination of political revolutionary and prophet. The Book of Khalid offers readers a heady mix of picaresque, philosophical dialogue, and immigrant story.In this critical edition, Fine includes the text of the original 1911 edition, a substantial glossary, and supplemental essays by leading Rihani scholars. Demonstrating the reach and significance of the work, these essays address a variety of themes, including Rihani's creative influences, philosophical elements, and the historical context of the novel. Attracting a new generation of readers to Rihani's innovative work, this edition reveals his continued resonance with contemporary Arab American literature.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Kahlil Gibran & Ameen Rihani: Prophets of Lebanese-American literature

Oueijan, Naji

Eid, Assaad

Salameh, Doumit (ed) Gibran, Kahlil

Notre Dame University Press

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"The Book of Khalid is a beautiful example of the lasting power of creative spirits in a complicated world ... masterful." --The Austin Chronicle "...prescient in its treatment of Arab-Western relations." --The New Yorker "Remarkably relevant to the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East today." --BBC News "Rihani's style is lavish and unrestrained...the prose is ecstatic." --The Brooklyn Rail "This landmark novel...is artful and complex...Rihani encourages us to cherish our liberty, to seek material comfort and to engage our spiritual lives, to be patriotic yet remain critical of our failings." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer The first Arab-American novel and inspiration for Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, The Book of Khalid deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience. Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-the-century New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants--the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city--to often humiliating and comic result. Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress, and religious unity and tolerance in the Arab world. A call that has him, accidentally, almost founding a new religion--and almost becoming its first martyr, when his ideas incite the faithful to riot. Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature.

The Book of Khalid

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