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500 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1928
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Ameen Rihani
86 books141 followersBorn in Freike, Lebanon, on November 24, 1876, 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 1888, 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.
Ameen had a natural talent in eloquent speaking, and in 1895, the teenager became carried away by stage fever and joined a touring stock company headed by Henry Jewet (who later had his theatre in Boston). During the summer of the same year, the troupe became stranded in Kansas City, Missouri and so the prodigal son returned to his father. However, he returned not to rejoin the business, but to insist that his father give him a regular education for a professional career. They agreed that he should study law. To that end, he attended night school for a year, passed the Regents Exam, and in 1897 entered the New York Law School. A lung infection interrupted his studies, and at the end of his first year, his father had to send him back to Lebanon to recover.
Ameen Rihani first became familiar with Arab and other Eastern poets in 1897. Among these poets were Abul-Ala, whom Ameen discovered to be the forerunner of Omar Khayyam. In 1899 he returned to New York having decided to translate some of the quatrains of Abul-Ala into English. He managed to do this while he was still giving much of his time to the family business. The first version of the translation was published in 1903. During this period, he joined several literary and artistic societies in New York, such as the Poetry Society of America and the Pleiades Club, and also became a regular contributor to an Arabic weekly, "Al-Huda" published in New York. He wrote about social traditions, religion, national politics and philosophy. Thus, he began his extensive literary career, bridging two worlds. He published his first two books in Arabic in 1902 and 1903.
He also worked, along with other national leaders, for the liberation of his country from Turkish rule. In 1910 he published Al-Rihaniyat, the book that established him as a forward thinker and a visionary. As a result of the Rihaniyat, the Egyptian media hailed him as "The Philosopher of Freike." The Book of Khalid was written during this same period of mountain solitude and was later published in 1911 after he returned to New York (for the third time) via Paris and London where he met with fellow writers and artists. The illustrations for this book, which was the first English novel ever written by a Lebanese/Arab, were provided by Kahlil Gibran. A reception was held in honor of Rihani for the release of The Book of Khalid and the president of the New York Pleiades Club crowned him with a laurel garland.
Ameen Rihani passed away at age 64 at 1:00 pm on September 13, 1940 in his hometown of Freike, Lebanon. The cause of his death was a bicycle accident which resulted in infectious injuries from multiple fractures of the skull. The news of his death was broadcast to many parts of the world. Representatives of Arab kings and rulers and of foreign diplomatic missions attended the funeral ceremony. He was laid to rest in the Rihani Family Mausoleum in Freike.
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.
Ameen had a natural talent in eloquent speaking, and in 1895, the teenager became carried away by stage fever and joined a touring stock company headed by Henry Jewet (who later had his theatre in Boston). During the summer of the same year, the troupe became stranded in Kansas City, Missouri and so the prodigal son returned to his father. However, he returned not to rejoin the business, but to insist that his father give him a regular education for a professional career. They agreed that he should study law. To that end, he attended night school for a year, passed the Regents Exam, and in 1897 entered the New York Law School. A lung infection interrupted his studies, and at the end of his first year, his father had to send him back to Lebanon to recover.
Ameen Rihani first became familiar with Arab and other Eastern poets in 1897. Among these poets were Abul-Ala, whom Ameen discovered to be the forerunner of Omar Khayyam. In 1899 he returned to New York having decided to translate some of the quatrains of Abul-Ala into English. He managed to do this while he was still giving much of his time to the family business. The first version of the translation was published in 1903. During this period, he joined several literary and artistic societies in New York, such as the Poetry Society of America and the Pleiades Club, and also became a regular contributor to an Arabic weekly, "Al-Huda" published in New York. He wrote about social traditions, religion, national politics and philosophy. Thus, he began his extensive literary career, bridging two worlds. He published his first two books in Arabic in 1902 and 1903.
He also worked, along with other national leaders, for the liberation of his country from Turkish rule. In 1910 he published Al-Rihaniyat, the book that established him as a forward thinker and a visionary. As a result of the Rihaniyat, the Egyptian media hailed him as "The Philosopher of Freike." The Book of Khalid was written during this same period of mountain solitude and was later published in 1911 after he returned to New York (for the third time) via Paris and London where he met with fellow writers and artists. The illustrations for this book, which was the first English novel ever written by a Lebanese/Arab, were provided by Kahlil Gibran. A reception was held in honor of Rihani for the release of The Book of Khalid and the president of the New York Pleiades Club crowned him with a laurel garland.
Ameen Rihani passed away at age 64 at 1:00 pm on September 13, 1940 in his hometown of Freike, Lebanon. The cause of his death was a bicycle accident which resulted in infectious injuries from multiple fractures of the skull. The news of his death was broadcast to many parts of the world. Representatives of Arab kings and rulers and of foreign diplomatic missions attended the funeral ceremony. He was laid to rest in the Rihani Family Mausoleum in Freike.
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December 28, 2020
امين الريحاني كان من المستشارين المقربين لابن سعود وكتابه هذا يتناول قصة تأسيس مايعرف تاريخيا بالدولة السعوديه الثالثه منذ تأسيسها في اوائل القرن العشرين وحتى قيام المملكة العربية السعودية . هذا الكتاب فيه شرح مستفيض للعلاقات السعوديه الكويتيه وتقلبتاها في عصر الشيخ مبارك وابنه الشيخ سالم الذي لم تكن تربطه بابن سعود علاقة ودية وقد أدى ذلك كله وكما هو معروف الى حدوث معركة الجهراء ، يتطرق المؤلف بعد ذلك الى تاريخ امارة جبل شمر والتي حكمت مناطق نجد فترة قصيرة نسبيا وقد استفاض المؤلف في قصة الحرب الضروس التي دامت طويلا بين الرشيديين ( حكام جبل شمر ) والسعوديين وكذلك يشرح المؤلف أسباب سقوطها في عام 1921 بعد حصار لم يستمر طويلا ، ينتقل بعد ذلك الى قصة العلاقة السعودية مع الدولة الحجازية ويشرح ايضا بالتفصيل شخصية الشريف حسين بن علي ثم يتطرق الى معركة تربة وقصة سقوط مكة والطائف تحت ضربات الامير سلطان الدين ابن بجاد امير قبيلة عتيبة وأخير يشرح المؤلف قصة حصار جده الذي استمر طويلا وانتهى بتسليم كامل الأراضي الحجازية للدولة السعودية . بعد ذلك يتطرق المؤلف الى قصة فتح أراضي عسير والمخلاف السليماني ( جازان ) وبعدها يتناول قصة الخلاف مع الإخوان والذي انتهى بمعركة السبلة ثم ماجرى من بعدها من أحداث أدت الى استسلام بقية زعماء الاخوان وأخيرا قيام المملكة العربية السعودية . هذا الكتاب يبين لك قصة الكفاح والجهد الجبار الذي قام به به الملك عبدالعزيز آل سعود في سبيل توحيد المملكة العربية السعودية وهي قصة تستحق أن تضعه بمقام القادة العظام
May 17, 2016
أكثر الكتب متعة هي كتب التاريخ.
وبالنسبة لي حين تتحدث عن الملك عبدالعزيز
وتاريخ تأسيس السعودية الثالثة خاصةً فتح الحجاز
بالسلم ودخول الرياض.
الكتاب تأريخ لتاريخ نجد الحديث منذ بداية
الدعوة الوهابية واتفاق ا��ن عبدالوهاب مع
محمد بن سعود وعن السعودية الاولى
مرورا بالدولة السعودية الثانية
وسقوطها حتى تأسيس السعودية الثالثة وهي
التي أخذت الجزء الأكبر من الكتاب.
وتحدث عن الدعوة الوهابية مبيناً ماغمض منها
وما فهم خطأً وقد افادني حديثة عنها كثيراً.
وبالنسبة لي حين تتحدث عن الملك عبدالعزيز
وتاريخ تأسيس السعودية الثالثة خاصةً فتح الحجاز
بالسلم ودخول الرياض.
الكتاب تأريخ لتاريخ نجد الحديث منذ بداية
الدعوة الوهابية واتفاق ا��ن عبدالوهاب مع
محمد بن سعود وعن السعودية الاولى
مرورا بالدولة السعودية الثانية
وسقوطها حتى تأسيس السعودية الثالثة وهي
التي أخذت الجزء الأكبر من الكتاب.
وتحدث عن الدعوة الوهابية مبيناً ماغمض منها
وما فهم خطأً وقد افادني حديثة عنها كثيراً.
June 9, 2019
مايميز هذا الكتاب ان المؤلف اخذ اغلب تاريخ الدولة السعودية الثالثة مشافهة من الملك عبدالعزيز، وكان معاصرا لأهم الأحداث في تاريخ الملك عبدالعزيز،
كما أنه شارك في التوسط بين الملك عبدالعزيز والملك علي،
امين الريحاني كان صديق العرب جميعهم، بمعنى أن الأسلوب الذي انتهجه كان موضوعي،
الكتاب ممتع لأبعد الحدود ويعد مصدر مهم في سيرة الملك عبدالعزيز.
كما أنه شارك في التوسط بين الملك عبدالعزيز والملك علي،
امين الريحاني كان صديق العرب جميعهم، بمعنى أن الأسلوب الذي انتهجه كان موضوعي،
الكتاب ممتع لأبعد الحدود ويعد مصدر مهم في سيرة الملك عبدالعزيز.
April 6, 2020
كتاب جيد لتاريخ الدولة السعودية الاولى والثانية مع التركيز على فترة حكم الملك عبدالعزيز الى سنة ١٩٢٦ عند تسليم جدة ومغادرة الملك علي خصوصا والكاتب معاصر لبعض الاحداث خصوصا فتر ة دخول مكة و المدينة وجدة. اذا اردت تاريخ الدولة السعودية الثالثة بالكامل فانصح بكتاب سعود بن هذلول "ملوك ال سعود"
March 3, 2023
من أهم الكتب المتعلقة بتاريخ نجد وبروز نجم الملك عبدالعزيز ال سعود وتاريخ صراعات القبائل العربية والوضع السياسي في نجد والحجاز ودور الإخوان وحروبهم. كما يحكي الكاتب وضع الشريف حسين وتخليه عن العرش لابنه علي
November 2, 2017
كتاب يروي قصة سعي الملك عبدالعزيز رحمة الله بتوحيد البلاد...الكتاب اخذ طابع موضوعي تجاة كل الاحداث و الاشخاص و الجماعات . هي قصة بالفعل عظيمة و حدوثها رحمة من رب العالمين...ارى ان الكتاب يجب ان يقرأة كل سعودي
October 2, 2012
كتاب جميل , استفدت منه جدا
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