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The Book of Khalid
Reproduction of the original: The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
Selected Letters of Ameen Al-Rihani (Black and White Edition)
For the first time in English, here is the complete picture of Ameen al-Rihani at his best: poet, writer, philosopher, traveler, diplomat, Arab nationalist, politician, historian, teacher, son, brother, lover, friend, spiritualist, social reformer, and patriot. From 1896 to 1940 the world was busy corresponding with Ameen al-Rihani. These letters are a biographical testament that allows us to accompany Ameen throughout the better part of his life's journey and see the world as he saw it and also see him and his world through the eyes of a multitude of his contemporaries. These letters are valid historical documents that shed light on a critical bygone era of our national history, Arab identity, and place on the stage of world affairs. They highlight some of the major events that shaped history and sealed the fate of certain nations at the turn of the twentieth century. Among the authors of these documents are kings, presidents, sheiks, bishops and government officials. There are world renowned Orientalists, professors, authors, poets, writers, journalists, critics, and historians. Inside is also an illustrated pilgrimage to al-Rihani's home and museum. (Black and White Edition)
Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia
First published in 2005. This little known traveller's account of the 1920's is at the same time amusing and perceptive. Beginning in Baghdad, travelling across the Gulf to Bahrain, Ameen Rihani enters the Arabia of Ibn Sa'oud, the fast-becoming legend of the region. Weaving a fine tapestry of colourful local information, political intrigue and characters of the time, Rihani's book is an undiscovered classic.
Myrtle and Myrrh [poems]
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Heart of Lebanon
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.
Ameen Al-Rihani: My Story with May
Rumors abounded concerning the romantic relationship between May Ziyadeh and Ameen al-Rihani: How and when did they meet? How did they correspond? How did they exchange their books and opinions? How did this relationship develop through ebb and flow and ups and down?Rumors also abounded concerning May's tragedy: its causes, circumstances, and conclusion, especially Ameen al-Rihani's role in all of this.This manuscript, "My Story with May" which was published for the first time in 1980, in Arabic, forty years after the death of al- Rihani and thirty nine years after the death of May, is in fact, simply a "Confession and an Apology" as the philosopher of Freike, al-Rihani, puts it. It is also one of the many phases of a loving and sincere autobiography that is interactive between two giant authors of our time. For the first time ever, this book has been translated into English by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. It is an important addition to al-Rihani scholarship and research.
Gibran, Rihani & Naimy
Originally published in Russian during the final years of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the influences of foreign literary movements, specifically Romanticism and Realism, on the three authors examined within. By viewing Gibran and Rihani's works in the light of English poets such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley and American writers such as Emerson and Whitman--and by exploring Naimy through the lens of the Russian Realist tradition, drawing parallels specifically with the work of Belinsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and the Chekhovian tradition--this work provides an unusual window into the Arab world's cultural interaction with Europe, America, and Russia in the early 20th century. At the same time, it reaches beyond its academic scope and reveals universal elements that speak to all people and go beyond cultural frameworks altogether.
The Book of Khalid
Reproduction of the original: The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
Sceptics of Islam
Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century. Such debates are now integral to the struggle for power between a variety of political groups and their opponents, and are vital to understanding the modern Middle East. This unique volume introduces writings of Arab Christian and Muslim revisionist and radical "free thinkers" who have tried to redefine the relationship. It challenges the deeply entrenched idea that the contemporary Islamic world has been impermeable to a critique of religious ideas and practices. Authors from the nineteenth century to the present are included. Some are avowed believers, even if they adopt posit...
