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Title ALFUNNU ALRAWAI LADA AMIN ALREHANI (DIRASA FINNEYA (الفن الروائ لدی أمین الریحانی (دراسۃ فینہ)

Author(s) Rizwan Hussain

Abstract “Amin Al-Rihani, A Novelist, An Artistic Study Through His Novels” Amin Al-Rihani (1876-1940), the Lebanese American writer, philosopher, and political activist in the first half of last century who devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. Amin Al-Rihani is generally regarded as the most prominent member of the ‘Lebanese-American’ or al-Mahjar school of modern literature and thought, which includes Kahlil Gibran and Mikhail Nuaimey. He also demonstrated great foresight in his choice of political and social issues upon which to concentrate, for these same issues were destined to have a continuing relevance in world affairs right up to the present day. He was both a Romantic and a Realist. On the one hand he firmly rejected the ills of society and was both a literary rebel and a lover of nature and of all things simple. Rihani was in is mid-twenties when it became clear to him that the decay of Arab society was primarily due to ignorance and sectarian fanaticism, and that sweeping intellectual, spiritual, and material reform was needed. In his Arabic writings he warned his own people and his Arab brethren against the many dangers threatening them and the ambitions of other nations regarding their own integrity. His most successful Arabic works in the various literary genres are as follows: Novels: The Muleteer and the Monk; The Chronicle of Repentance; Short story: The Lily of al-Ghour; Essays: A Rihani ح Compendium; Extremism and Reform; Criticism: Literature and Art; Oriental an Occidental Profiles; History: A History of Modern Najd; The Disasters, Feisal the First; Poetry: A Voice Crying in the Valleys; Theater: The Loyalty of Time; Travel: Arab Monarchs ; Heart of Lebanon; Heart of Iraq; The Far Maghrib; The Light of Andalusia. The most controversial of his works was Antom Ush-Shouraa (You Poets), in which he fiercely criticizes the woeful and spineless state of Arabic poetry. He made a highly significant contribution to the development of modern Arabic poetry through his early literary activity in the United States. He earned for himself the Arabic title of ‘Father of Prose Poetry’. Kahlil Gibran was the first to recognize the debt owed to Rihani by his successors, indeed, Rihani and Gibran were the inspiration for every Arab writing in English after them. It is no exaggeration to say that these two men made the most important intellectual and literary contribution to the revitalization of Arab intellectual life in the first quarter of the 20th century. Indeed, the Middle East of today, and students of its problems worldwide, still have much to learn from Amin Rihani.

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Publication Date 2022-05-12

Subject Arabic

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