Author: Mikhail Naimy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258071059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: George Nicolas El-Hage, PH D
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This book is an exciting and informative spiritual journey in the company of Christ. It is an open and honest dialogue, a heart to heart conversation with Jesus, a friend, a man, and "The Savior." The book is daring and provocative but inspiring. Naimy wrote it when he was in his eighties. It is the fruit of years of meditation and analysis. It compels you to re-think and re-evaluate your own understanding of the Holy Book and the stories that you grew up with and accepted at face value. These are the stories that you took for granted to be the truth and the whole truth about your faith and beliefs. It is a personal journey of self discovery towards the holy, the sacred, and the divine residing inside each one of us. However, even at times when you think that Naimy is questioning the authority of the Gospel and the narrative of a certain evangelist, you cannot doubt or even suspect the author's faith and belief in Christ. The book teaches you how to read the Bible, and if you have read it, it makes you think of how to understand it. It compels you to re-consider certain things that you had never thought of before or have questioned before. Consequently, you think that you have read the Bible, but until you have read Naimy's book, your reading of the Gospels shall remain incomplete and even shallow. You will be surprised how much you have missed and how much you have overlooked or did not stop to re-consider and analyze. In his philosophy and religious thought, Naimy transcends any sect, church, denomination or group in his search for the Divine. He does not subscribe to any laws, commandments, rituals, or particular observances because his message is intrinsically universal in its content and in its application and practice.

Author: Mikhail Naimy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504077326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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An intimate, literary biography of the renowned Lebanese-American poet, written by his close friend and fellow author. Best known for his collection of prose poetry, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran is a legendary figure of early twentieth century literature. In this biography, Mikhail Naimy digs beneath the mythologized persona. Here is Gibran the man: wanderer, lover, and seeker of truth and beauty. Naimy, for whom Gibran called on his death bed, was a literary leader of the Middle East. He speaks as a direct observer and confidant, setting forth in intimate detail the incidents of Gibran’s life. Many of Gibran’s previously unpublished writings and sayings are included, throwing new light on the perspective and personal thoughts of a writer who has been so influential in the worlds of literature, art, and philosophy. An extensive supplement includes, among other valuable material, Gibran’s last will and testament, and a series of personal letters written by him to the author over the years.

Author: George Nicolas El-Hage Ph. D.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090240590
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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When The members of the Pen Bond Association (al-Rabita al-Qalamiya), a distinguished group of "like-minded" authors to borrow Naimy's phrase, were busy writing and publishing in New York City and striving to modernize and change the course of Arabic Literature, there was another group in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt (The Diwan Group) trying, within the limitations imposed on them by their closed environment, to do the same but with much less success. Perhaps it is not fair to compare the achievements and impact of these two separate groups on the modernization of Arabic literature and poetry at the turn of the twentieth century and the three decades that followed because al-Akkad, al-Mazini, and to some extent Shoukry, although they were open-minded and wanted to be tolerant of new ideas and literary theories, they still lived in a very conservative and extremely traditional society that worshiped the past and adhered to ancient rules of grammar, linguistics, morphology, and prosody. In al-Akkad, Naimy found a partner, a "like-minded" counterpart across the seas, who shared with him some basic understanding of the role of literature, poetry, the poet, and the critic. These two prominent authors had more in common even if al-Akkad insisted on putting language above the poet, thus disagreeing with Naimy who believed that language is but an instrument and a means to an end. Nevertheless, it was befitting that al-Akkad was chosen to write the introduction to the first edition of Naimy's influential book of literary criticism, al-Ghirbal, because the Egyptian Scholar was also in his own way trying to innovate in an environment shackled with a heavy inheritance of outworn traditions and forced to still wear the outmoded garments of a bygone world. As a critic, Naimy ignited a revolution that set new standards for literary criticism in modern Arabic literature. Al-Ghirbal is a decisive and definitive statement which rejects the years of stagnation that plagued Arabic literature and offers new rules and guidance to replace the archaic ones. The book bravely admits that thanks to Western literature and theories of literary criticism, we started to witness a noticeable change in Arabic literature. It introduces and legitimizes the theater, acting, the role of the actor, the play writer, and novelist as well as the important act of translating and the vital role of the translator. Placing the book in its proper historical timeframe, we realize that many of the revolutionary ideas and concepts advanced in al-Ghirbal were at the time of its publication considered avant-garde, radical, and almost heretical. The amazing fact is that the message of this book is as relevant today as it was valid and pertinent then, and if Naimy returned to life, he would not change a word in the book. Al-Ghirbal's message was strong and clear. It was certainly meant to awaken the sleepy and "lazy" minds and souls and to shock, anger, and even hurt the sensitivity of its readers and the hosts of versifiers and pretenders who thought they were poets and drive them to rethink, reconsider, and reevaluate. All said, al-Ghirbal remains one the most powerful documents on literary criticism in modern Arabic literature since the turn of the twentieth century. It abounds with sarcasm that bites but also with wisdom that enlightens and guides. It also summarizes the position of the Pen Bond Association (al-Rabita al-Qalamiya) regarding poetry and the role of the poet and of literature as they viewed it and strongly advocated to popularize and modernize it.

Author: Dr. Joseph Murphy
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN: 1722523727
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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You have the incredible potential to be, do, and receive whatever you desire, imagine, and truly believe. Unfortunately, only a small number of people achieve their full human potential, because they fail to recognize and harness the infinite power of the subconscious mind—the divinity within them and around them. Meditations & Affirmations will show you how to create your own new reality through desire, imagination, and belief.

Author: Mikhail Naimy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sects
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Author: Aida Imangulieva
Publisher: Anqa Publishing
ISBN: 190593727X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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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.

Author: Mayy Rīḥānī
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998346595
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Author: Mikhail Naimy
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1780283083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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A classic of spiritual literature for fans of visionary, metaphysical, and mystical novels such as The Little Prince and The Alchemist Mikhail Naimy, a contemporary of Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, has woven legend, mysticism, philosophy and poetry into a powerful allegorical story that has touched the hearts of millions of readers. This timeless allegorical tale presents the teachings of Mirdad, abbott of a monastery that stands where Noah's Ark came to rest after the Flood. In a series of dialogues with his disciples, Mirdad offers lessons on themes such as love, obedience, borrowing and lending, repentance, old age, and the cycle of life and death. Reissued for a new generation, this prophetic work calls on humankind to prepare for another deluge, greater than Noah's, when Heaven will be revealed on Earth. Includes a new foreword by Andrew Harvey, author of the bestselling A Journey in Ladakh and several other seminal works of spirituality.

Author: Gregory Orfalea
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Arab-American poetry is an especially rich, people-involved, passionate literature that has been spawned, at least until recently, in isolation from the American mainstream. This anthology reflects the current renaissance in the literature of what may be the latest ethnic community to assert itself. Twenty poets are represented in this collection, fifteen of them living, five of them women. They start with Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran and include celebrated contemporaries who write in Arabic or English or both. Contributors: Kahlil Gibran o Ameen Rihani o Jamil Holway o Mikhail Naimy o Elia Abu Madi o Etel Adnan o D.H. Melhem o Samuel Hazo o Joseph Awad o Eugene Paul Nasser o H.S. (Sam) Hamod o Jack Marshall o Fawaz Turki o Doris Safie o Ben Bennani o Sharif Elmusa o Lawrence Joseph o Gregory Orfalea o Naomi Shihab Nye o Elmaz Abinader.