Ameen rihani biography books
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Ameen Rihani
American writer
Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī; Arabic: أمين الريحاني / ALA-LC: Amīn ar-Rīḥānī; November 24, &#;– Sept 13, ) was a Lebanese-American essayist, intellectual promote political heretical. He was also a major division in depiction mahjar literate movement mature by Arabian emigrants send North U.s., and insinuation early theorizer of Arabian nationalism. Yes became upshot American phase in
Early days
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Born in Freike, Lebanon, on November 24, , Ameen Rihani was one of six children and the oldest son of a Lebanese Maronite raw silk manufacturer, then a flourishing local industry. His father had commercial ambitions which beckoned him to America. In the summer of , Ferris Rihani, the father, sent his brother and eldest son, Ameen, to the United States and followed a year later.
The young immigrant, then twelve years old, was placed in a school outside the city of New York, a few months after his arrival. There, he learned the rudiments of English. His father and uncle, having established themselves as merchants in a small cellar in lower Manhattan, soon felt the need for an assistant who could read and write English. Therefore, the boy was taken away from school to become the chief clerk, interpreter and bookkeeper of the business. The family continued in this trade for four years.
Family portrait of Ameen Rihani (standing far left) with his parents and siblings
During this period of time, Ameen made the acquaintance of two poets, William Shakespeare and Victor Hugo whose writings became his first readings in the cellar. He developed a genuine love for reading and, in time, became familiar with the writings of Darwin, Huxl
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Ameen Rihani bibliography
The following is a list of works by Ameen Rihani
Arabic
[edit]Philosophical, literary, social,
and political essays and letters
[edit]- – The Rihani Essays (Ar-Rihaniyyaat) الريحانيات
- (posthumous) – Nationalisms (Al-Qawmiyat) القوميات
- (posthumous) – Eastern and Western Figures (Wujuh Sharkiya Gharbiya) وجوه شرقية غربية
- (posthumous) – Literature and Art (Adab wa Fan) أدب وفن
- (posthumous) – The Arabic Letters of Ameen Rihani (Rasa’el Ameen Ar-Rihani Al-‘Arabiya) رسائل أمين الريحاني العربية
- (posthumous) – Seeds for Planters (Budhur Liz-Zari’een) بذور للزارعين
- (posthumous) – Writings of Early Days (Shadharat Min ‘Ahd-is Siba) شذرات من عهد الصبا
- (posthumous) – My Will (Wasiyati) وصيّتي
Historical and political analysis
[edit]- – Treatise of the French Revolution (Nubdha fi ath-Thawra al-Faransiya) نبذة في الثورة الفرنسية
- – Kings of the Arabs (Muluk al-Arab) ملوك العرب
- – Disasters (An-Nakabat) النكبات
- – Extremism and Reform (At-Tatarrof wa'l-Islah) التطرّف والإصلاح
- – The Modern History of Najd (Tareekh Najd al-hadith) تاريخ نجد الحديث
- – Faysal the First (Faysal al-awwal) فيصل الأوّل
- – The Heart of Iraq (Qalb al-‘Iraq) قلب العراق
Allegory
[edit]- – The Trilateral Treaty in the A