The Book of Khalid
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About This Book
In the Khedivial Library of Cairo, among the Papyri of the Scribe of Amen-Ra and the beautifully illuminated copies of the Koran, the modern Arabic Manuscript which forms the subject of this Book, was found. The present Editor was attracted to it by the dedication and the rough drawings on the cover; which, indeed, are as curious, if not as mystical, as ancient Egyptian symbols. One of these is supposed to represent a New York Skyscraper in the shape of a Pyramid, the other is a dancing group under which is "The Stockbrokers and the Dervishes."And around these symbols, in Arabic circlewise, th...
Chapters (70)
- THE BOOK OF KHALID
- THE BOOK OF KHALID
- NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1911
- CONTENTS
- BOOK THE FIRST IN THE EXCHANGE
- BOOK THE SECOND
- IN THE TEMPLE
- BOOK THE THIRD
- IN KULMAKAN
- AL-FATIHAH
- TO MAN
- CHAPTER I
- PROBING THE TRIVIAL
- CHAPTER II
- THE CITY OF BAAL
- CHAPTER III
- VIA DOLOROSA
- CHAPTER IV
- ON THE WHARF OF ENCHANTMENT
- CHAPTER V
- THE CELLAR OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER VI
- THE SUMMER AFTERNOON OF A SHAM
- CHAPTER VII
- IN THE TWILIGHT OF AN IDEA
- CHAPTER VIII
- WITH THE HURIS
- TO NATURE
- CHAPTER I
- THE DOWRY OF DEMOCRACY
- CHAPTER II
- SUBTRANSCENDENTAL
- CHAPTER III
- THE FALSE DAWN
- CHAPTER IV
- THE LAST STAR
- CHAPTER V
- PRIESTO-PARENTAL
- CHAPTER VI
- FLOUNCES AND RUFFLES
- CHAPTER VII
- THE HOWDAJ OF FALSEHOOD
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE KAABA OF SOLITUDE
- CHAPTER IX
- SIGNS OF THE HERMIT
- CHAPTER X
- THE VINEYARD IN THE KAABA
- TO GOD[1]
- CHAPTER I
- THE DISENTANGLEMENT OF THE ME
- CHAPTER II
- THE VOICE OF THE DAWN
- CHAPTER III
- THE SELF ECSTATIC
- CHAPTER IV
- ON THE OPEN HIGHWAY
- CHAPTER V
- UNION AND PROGRESS
- CHAPTER VI
- REVOLUTIONS WITHIN AND WITHOUT
- CHAPTER VII
- A DREAM OF EMPIRE
- CHAPTER VIII
- ADUMBRATIONS
- CHAPTER IX
- THE STONING AND FLIGHT
- CHAPTER X
- THE DESERT
- AL-KHATIMAH
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