KHALIL GIBRAN @ 90:
23 QUESTIONS ABOUT KHALIL GIBRAN YOU WANTED ANSWERED

By Wole Adedoyin

For those hearing or reading about Khalil Gibran for the first time. We were fascinated by the range of questions about Khalil Gibran, we urge you to learn more about Khalil Gibran, his life, times and works. So take a look through the 25 fascinating questions we compiled with answers and see if any of your questions got answered!

1. WHY IS KAHLIL GIBRAN IMPORTANT?

Kahlil Gibran was the key figure in a Romantic movement that transformed Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century.

2. WAS THE PROPHET WRITTEN IN ENGLISH OR ARABIC?

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work.

3. WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF THE PROPHET BY KAHLIL GIBRAN?

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.

4. WHAT NATIONALITY IS KHALIL GIBRAN?

Lebanese

5. WHEN DID KHALIL GIBRAN DIE?

10 April 1931

6. WAS KAHLIL GIBRAN A MYSTIC?

Gibran's undying fame, however, rests as a great poet, thinker and mystic writer. He believed in the essential divinity of human being and the continuity of life. Most of his writings were done originally in Arabic and later translated into English either by himself or by others.

7. WHO INFLUENCED KAHLIL GIBRAN?

William Blake. Symbolists such as Rodin and the English poet and artist William Blake, who was a big influence on Gibran, favoured romance over realism and it was a movement that was already passe in the 1920s as modernists such as TS Eliot and Ezra Pound were gaining popularity.

8. WHAT GENRE IS THE PROPHET BY KAHLIL GIBRAN?

Prose poetry

9. HOW MANY CHAPTERS DOES THE PROPHET HAVE?

Gibran's musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, ...

10. HOW MANY PAGES IS THE PROPHET?

107

11. WHY IS KHALIL GIBRAN FAMOUS?

Lebanon-born writer and artist Kahlil Gibran became famous for his mystical Arabic and English works, earning fame following the 1923 publication of 'The Prophet. '

12. WHEN WAS THE PROPHET WRITTEN?
1923. Since it was published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print. The perennial classic has been translated into more than 50 languages and is a staple on international best-seller lists.

13. WHEN WAS THE PROPHET WIDELY READ IN AMERICA?
1923. Popularity. The Prophet has been translated into more than 100 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history. By 2012, it had sold more than nine million copies in its American edition alone since its original publication in 1923.

14. IS THE PROPHET A RELIGIOUS BOOK?

It is not a religious book, but it is spiritual, and Gibran was clearly a man who embraced the best of Christianity, Judaism and Moslem teachings. His poetic prose is exquisite.

15. WHEN WAS KHALIL GIBRAN BORN?

6 January 1883

16. WHERE WAS GIBRAN BORN?

Bsharri, Lebanon

17. WHERE IS KAHLIL GIBRAN BURIED?

Gibran Museum, Lebanon

18. WHAT DOES KAHLIL GIBRAN SAY ABOUT MARRIAGE?

By way of advice on the secret to a loving and lasting marriage, Gibran offers: Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

19. DOES MUSTAFA DIE IN THE PROPHET?

Mustafa refuses to try to escape, giving his final animated poem, this time on death. His final wish is that his friends to return to the house and rescue all his paintings and writings before the army can destroy them.

20. WHO IS ALMITRA IN THE PROPHET?

Almitra. Almitra is a seeress in the temple of Orphalese. She has been a supporter of Almustafa throughout the twelve years he has spent in her city. It is Almitra who encourages Almustafa to answer the townspeople's questions before he departs and heads back home.

21. IS ORPHALESE A REAL PLACE?

The Prophet comes down from the hill and heads towards the city named Orphalese. Though the city has no real existence, the construction of its name is very significant.

22. WHAT DOES KHALIL GIBRAN SAY ABOUT LOVE?

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

23. WHERE ACCORDING TO THE PROPHET DOES THE ARCHER SEE THE MARK?

“The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far” Here archer refers to

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