
The Book of Khalid
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Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, 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.
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TODD FINE (afterword) is the director of Project Khalid, the centennial campaign for The Book of Khalid.
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Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Al-Fatihah
- Book the First: In the Exchange
- To Man
- I. Proving the Trivial
- II. The City of Baal
- III. Via Dolorosa
- IV. On the Wharf of Enchantment
- V. The Cellar of the Soul
- VI. The Summer Afternoon of a Sham
- VII. In the Twilight of an Idea
- VIII. With the Huris
- Book the Second: In the Temple
- To Nature
- I. The Dowry of Democracy
- II. Subtranscendental
- III. The False Dawn
- IV. The Last Star
- V. Priesto-Parental
- VI. Flounces and Ruffles
- VII. The Howdaj of Falsehood
- VIII. The Kaaba of Solitude
- IX. Signs of the Hermit
- X. The Vineyard in the Kaaba
- Book the Third: In Kulmakan
- To God
- I. The Disentaglement of the Me
- II. The Voice of the Dawn
- III. The Self Ecstatic
- IV. On the Open Highway
- V. Union and Progress
- VI. Revolutions Within and Without
- VII. A Dream of Empire
- VIII. Adumbrations
- IX. The Stoning and Flight
- X. The Desert
- Al-Khatimah
- Afterword: by Todd Fine
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