Khalil Gibran

Suheil Bushrui (The University of Maryland)

Ed. by Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.3: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 6 Jan 1883
Died 10 Apr 1931
Activity 1904-1931

Places

Born in Lebanon
Active in United States

Activities

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Artist
Poet

Resources

Gibran's Works

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Gibran Khalil Gibran, later known as Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), was a Lebanese-born writer of poetry and fiction and a well-known figure in the

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[emigré] school of Arab-American writers. He was born on 6 January 1883 in the town of Bisharri, Lebanon, near the grove of cedars on the edge of the Wadi Qadisha [The Holy or Sacred Valley] – a place which would appear in his writings as a major symbol of all that was sacred and mystical in his beloved homeland.

Gibran’s mother, Kamileh Istiphan Rahmeh, was a widow when she married her second husband, Khalil Gibran, father of the poet. Gibran’s full name in Arabic, therefore, was Gibran Khalil Gibran. As convention demanded, the middle name (in its standard transliteration) was his father’s. He would later change the correct

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Citation: Bushrui, Suheil. "Khalil Gibran". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 September 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12577, accessed 23 November 2024.]