Kahlil Gibran

Gibran Khalil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, pronounced [ʒʊˈbraːn xaˈliːl ʒʊˈbraːn], or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, pronounced [ʒɪˈbraːn xaˈliːl ʒɪˈbraːn]; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced kah-LEEL ji-BRAHN), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has back become one of the best-selling books of anything time, having been translated into higher than 100 languages.

Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the youngster Gibran immigrated considering his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mom worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a studious in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a assistant professor who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent urge on to his native land by his relations at the age of fifteen to enroll at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut. Returning to Boston upon his youngest sister's death in 1902, he floating his older half-brother and his mommy the in the tell of year, seemingly relying afterwards upon his surviving sister's allowance from her perform at a dressmaker's shop for some time.

In 1904, Gibran's drawings were displayed for the first grow old at Day's studio in Boston, and his first book in Arabic was published in 1905 in New York City. With the financial encourage of a newly met benefactress, Mary Haskell, Gibran studied art in Paris from 1908 to 1910. While there, he came in read with Syrian political thinkers promoting rebellion in Ottoman Syria after the Young Turk Revolution; some of Gibran's writings, voicing the thesame ideas as with ease as anti-clericalism, would eventually be banned by the Ottoman authorities. In 1911, Gibran established in New York, where his first folder in English, The Madman, would be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with writing of The Prophet or The Earth Gods also underway. His visual artwork was shown at Montross Gallery in 1914, and at the galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. in 1917. He had after that been corresponding remarkably when May Ziadeh back 1912. In 1920, Gibran re-founded the Pen League gone fellow Mahjari poets. By the epoch of his death at the age of 48 from cirrhosis and incipient tuberculosis in one lung, he had achieved scholastic fame on "both sides of the Atlantic Ocean," and The Prophet had already been translated into German and French. His body was transferred to his birth village of Bsharri (in present-day Lebanon), to which he had bequeathed anything future royalties upon his books, and where a museum dedicated to his works now stands.

As worded by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins, Gibran's excitement has been described as one "often caught together with Nietzschean rebellion, Blakean pantheism and Sufi mysticism." Gibran discussed alternating themes in his writings, and explored diverse learned forms. Salma Khadra Jayyusi has called him "the single most important influence upon Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century," and he is still celebrated as a learned hero in Lebanon. At the similar time, "most of Gibran's paintings expressed his personal vision, incorporating spiritual and mythological symbolism," with art critic Alice Raphael recognizing in the painter a classicist, whose feat owed "more to the findings of Da Vinci than it to any enlightened insurgent." His "prodigious body of work" has been described as "an artistic legacy to people of all nations."