The Prophet

English & Arabic

eBook, 306 pages

English, Arabic language

Published Aug. 22, 2019

ISBN:
9780992899547
ASIN:
B07WCD5GYV
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Jamil Elabed, the author of this 8th Golden Copy edition of the translation into Arabic of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, spent twenty years and eight editions refining this work.

The Arabic language is his greatest passion. As a graduate of English Language and Literature, his English language skills helped him translate one of the greatest books in history into Gibran's mother tongue, a book that has sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than a hundred languages.

Jamil revelled in the company of Gibran's visions and thoughts over the years, hence his relentless refinement to bring this Golden Copy to as close to perfection and thorough faithfulness to the original text as he possibly could. This obsession was driven by his primary purpose of providing Arabic readers with the same pleasure that readers of the original English text bask in.

This herculean linguistic …

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Subjects

  • Poetry