The Book of Khalid
A Lebanese iconoclast emigrates to America and embarks on a quixotic quest for the truth.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1911
Latest release
Jul 28, 2026
Pages
324
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
Table of Contents
- Al-Fatihah
- Book the First
- To Man
- I. Probing the Trivial
- The City of Baal
- III. Via Dolorosa
- IV. On the Wharf of Enchantment
- V. The Cellar of the Soul
- VI. The Summer Afternoon of a Sham
- In the Twilight of an Idea
- VIII. With the Houris
- Book the Second
- To Nature
- I. The Dowry of Democracy
- Subtranscendental Deficiencies
- III. The False Dawn
- The Last Star
- V. Priesto-Parental
- VI. Flounces and Ruffles
- VII. The Howdaj of Falsehood
- VIII. The Kaaba of Solitude
- IX. Signs of the Hermit
- The Vineyard in the Kaaba
- Book the Third
- To God
- I. The Disentanglement of the Me
- II. The Voice of the Dawn
- The Self Ecstatic
- IV. On the Open Highway
- V. Union and Progress
- VI. Revolutions Within and Without
- A Dream of Empire
- VIII. Adumbrations
- IX. The Stoning and Flight
- The Desert
- Al-Khatimah