{"product_id":"the-prophet-by-khalil-gibran-bilingual-english-with-arabic-translation","title":"The Prophet by Khalil Gibran: Bilingual, English with Arabic translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eJamil Elabed, the author of this 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cem\u003eGolden Copy \u003c\/em\u003eedition of the translation into Arabic of Khalil Gibran's\u003cem\u003eThe Prophet, \u003c\/em\u003espent twenty years and eight editions refining this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamil revelled in the company of Gibran's visions and thoughts over the years, hence his relentless refinement to bring this \u003cem\u003eGolden Copy to \u003c\/em\u003eas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis herculean linguistic challenge Jamil undertook changed his life in so many ways. The vagueness of being was no longer as vague; we are no longer more body than spirit; what is here is not all that is there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Prophet \u003c\/em\u003eis a long poem that we all crave to sing. A song the translator sang with Gibran, albeit in Arabic this time. The Arabic words and phrases came from the same reservoir and transcendental echoes as their English counterparts; from the same mysterious caves, bearing the same breath and the same rhythm. However, the translator leaned heavily on the grandeur and the inherent vigorousness and tunefulness of the Arabic language that sent its words fluttering like robins in flight, and the phrases streaming like a brook in a melody of image and sound, reflecting those which Gibran saw and heard in his short but enormously bountiful and inspiring life.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Jamil Elabed","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442488307948,"sku":"9780992899523","price":18.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44442488340716,"sku":"9780992899530","price":42.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780992899523.jpg?v=1708839397","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/the-prophet-by-khalil-gibran-bilingual-english-with-arabic-translation","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}