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The Book of Khalid

Ameen Rihani

Novelsabout 10 hours of listening

A Lebanese iconoclast emigrates to America and embarks on a quixotic quest for the truth.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Al-Fatihah
  3. Book the First: In the Exchange
  4. To Man
  5. I: Probing the Trivial
  6. II: The City of Baal
  7. III: Via Dolorosa
  8. IV: On the Wharf of Enchantment
  9. V: The Cellar of the Soul
  10. VI: The Summer Afternoon of a Sham
  11. VII: In the Twilight of an Idea
  12. VIII: With the Houris
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  1. Book the Second: In the Temple
  2. To Nature
  3. I: The Dowry of Democracy
  4. II: Subtranscendental
  5. III: The False Dawn
  6. IV: The Last Star
  7. V: Priesto-Parental
  8. VI: Flounces and Ruffles
  9. VII: The Howdaj of Falsehood
  10. VIII: The Kaaba of Solitude
  11. IX: Signs of the Hermit
  12. X: The Vineyard in the Kaaba
  13. Book the Third: In Kulmakan
  14. To God
  15. I: The Disentanglement of the Me
  16. II: The Voice of the Dawn
  17. III: The Self Ecstatic
  18. IV: On the Open Highway
  19. V: Union and Progress
  20. VI: Revolutions Within and Without
  21. VII: A Dream of Empire
  22. VIII: Adumbrations
  23. IX: The Stoning and Flight
  24. X: The Desert
  25. Al-Khatimah
  26. Endnotes
  27. Colophon
  28. Uncopyright

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