Khalil Gibran full Arabic name in “Gibran Khalil Gibran”, sometimes spelled Kahlil. Kahlil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883 and died on April 10, 1931. He was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer.
Kahlil Gibran born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and instigated his literary career, lettering in both English and Arabic. In the Arab world, Gibran is stared as a literary and political dissident. His romantic elegance was at the heart of resurgence in modern Arabic literature, particularly style poetry, flouting away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still renowned as a literary hero.
Kahlil Gibran is primarily known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an initial instance of stimulating fiction counting a sequence of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well in spite of a cool serious welcome, achieving admiration in the 1930s and once more particularly in the 1960s counterculture. Kahlil Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behindhand Shakespeare and Laozi.
Kahlil Gibran was a prodigious devotee of poet and writer Francis Marrash, whose workings he had studied at al-Hikma school in Beirut.
Lots of Gibran’s writings deal with Christianity, particularly on the matter of spiritual love. But his spirituality is a conjunction of numerous different inspirations: Christianity, Islam, Sufism, Judaism and theosophy. He wrote: “You are my brother and I love you. I love you when you prostrate yourself in your mosque, and kneel in your church and pray in your synagogue. You and I are sons of one faith—the Spirit.”
Kahlil Gibran’s best-known work is The Prophet, a book self-possessed of twenty-six poetic essays. Its admiration grew decidedly for the duration of the 1960s with the American counterculture and then with the highpoint of the New Age activities. It has continued popular with these and with the broader populace to this day. Meanwhile it was first in print in 1923; The Prophet has not ever been out of print. Having been translated into more than 40 languages, it was one of the record breaking in selling books of the twentieth century in the United States.
One of his most distinguished lines of poetry is from “Sand and Foam” (1926), which reads: “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you”. This line was rummage-sale by John Lennon and located, though in a marginally different form, into the song “Julia” from The Beatles’ 1968 album The Beatles (aka “The White Album”). Johnny Cash recorded Gibran’s “The Eye of the Prophet” as an audio cassette book, and Cash can be perceived speaking about Gibran’s work on a pathway called “Book Review” on Unearthed (Johnny Cash album).
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