{"id":12290,"date":"2010-05-13T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2010-05-28T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T11:45:00","slug":"khalil-gibran%c2%b4s-prophet-the-maronites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/khalil-gibran%c2%b4s-prophet-the-maronites\/","title":{"rendered":"KHALIL GIBRAN\u00b4s PROPHET & THE MARONITES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KHA<\/span>LI<\/span>L GIBRAN – Works, Arts & Museum<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

M<\/span>aronite Center for Documentation & Research<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http<\/span>:\/\/<\/span>www.tlig.org\/en\/interreligious\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>M<\/span>aronite Patriachate<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

* A 1920 photograph of four prominent members of The Pen League (from left to right): Nasib \u2018Arida, Kahlil Gibran, \u2018Abd al-Masih Haddad, and Mikhail Naimy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Khalil Gibran (born Gubran Khalil Gubran bin MikhÄ?’Ä?l bin Sa’ad; Arabic \u062c\u0628\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u062e\u0644\u064a\u0644 \u062c\u0628\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0646 \u0645\u064a\u06a9\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644 \u0628\u0646 \u0633\u0639\u062f, January 6, 1883 \u2013 April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon mutasarrifate), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture.Gibran is considered to be the third most widely read poet in history, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Gibran was born in the Christian Maronite town of Bsharri (in modern day northern Lebanon) to the daughter of a Maronite priest<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. Read More: > <\/span>H<\/span>ERE <<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Maronite Church (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0627\u0631\u0646\u0629\u200e, Turkish: Maruni, Syriac: Ü?Ü?Ü?Ü?Ü?Ü?, Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. It traces its heritage back to the community founded by Maron, an early 5th-century Syriac monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, was elected in the late 7th century. Before the conquest by Arabian Muslims reached Lebanon, the Lebanese people including those who would become Muslim and the majority who would remain Christian, spoke a dialect of Aramaic.Syriac (Christian Aramaic) still remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church.The members of the Maronite Church are a part of the Syriac people. Read More: > <\/span>HER<\/span>E <<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kahlil Gibran – <\/span><\/strong>The Prophet <\/strong>– Much of Gibran’s writings deal with Christianity, especially on the topic of spiritual love. His poetry is notable for its use of formal language, as well as insights on topics of life using spiritual terms. Gibran’s best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. The book became especially popular during the 1960s with the American counterculture and New Age movements. Since it was first published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print. Having been translated into more than forty languages, it was one of the bestselling books of the twentieth century in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Khalil Gibran – A Retrospective<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Prophet<\/strong> is a book of prose poetry that made its Lebanese-American author famous. Commonly found in gift shops and frequently quoted at weddings or any occasion where uplifting ’spiritual‘ thoughts are required, the work has never been a favorite of intellectuals – to some readers it may seem a bit twee or pompous – yet its author was a genuine artist and scholar (see bio, below right) whose wisdom was hard-earned.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Prophet provides timeless spiritual wisdom on a range of subjects, including giving, eating and drinking, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, teaching, time, pleasure, religion, death, beauty and friendship. Corresponding to each chapter are evocative drawings by Gibran himself.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Final word <\/strong>– Taken as a whole, Gibran’s book is a metaphor for the mystery of life: we come into the world and go back to where we came from. As the prophet readies himself to board his ship, it is clear that his words refer not to his journey across the seas but to the world he came from before he was born. His life now seems to him like a short dream.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book suggests that we should be glad of the experience of coming into the world, even if it seems full of pain, because after death we will see that life had a pattern and a purpose, and that what seems to us now as ‚good‘ and ‚bad‘ will be appreciated without judgment as good for our souls. <\/span>><\/span> Full<\/strong><\/span> A<\/span>rticle & Order<\/strong> <<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The prophet also teaches that the separation we feel from other people and all forms of life while on earth is not real. We are merely expressions of a greater unity now forgotten. As he looks forward to his journey, Almustafa likens himself to „a boundless drop in a boundless ocean.“ To feel yourself to be a temporary manifestation of an infinite source is greatly comforting, and perhaps accounts for the feeling of peace and liberation many experience in reading The Prophet. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tagore, Rilke, Gibran: A Comparative Study <\/strong>– In Tagore, Rilke, Gibran Dr Rosy Singh deals with the recurrent metaphysical theme of love, harmony and peace in an age when social realism and western materialism had all but swept away any literary interest in mysticism. These three poets of East and West reflect on the destiny of Man in correspondence with the Divine Nature in all its sublimity and serenity.<\/span><\/p>\n

After her doctorate on the Existential Situations in Franz Kafka from Jaw<\/span>ah<\/span>arlal Nehru University<\/span><\/a> DR. ROSY SINGH teaches German at Delhi University. Her recent publication is Rilke, Kafka, Manto -the Semiotics of Love, Life and Death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Foreword:<\/strong> Tagore, Rilke, Gibran-a Comparative Study by Dr. Rosy Singh of D<\/span>e<\/span>lhi University <\/span><\/a>is an Associate of the U<\/span>G<\/span>C Inter-University Centre at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study<\/span><\/a><\/span>. She deals with three very significant metaphysical poets of east and west at the turn of the century when Nietzsche’s proclamation of the Death of God and Marxist social realism had all but swept away academic interest in mysticism. The lyrics of these poets kept the melody of love, harmony and peace tuned to the imagination of humanity. I am happy to present this incisive study as Occasional Paper of Inter-University Centre to the students of comparative literature and philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n


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