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The Book of Khalid

Ameen Rihani

BOOK TYPE
Novel
READING TIME
About 7.5 hours
WORDS
90,272
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About this book

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

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

Edition & source

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2026-06-27
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-24
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • Ameen Rihani (ann, aut)
  • David Roberts (art)
  • Todd Fine (trc)
  • Dan Horwood (trc)
  • Distributed Proofreaders (trc)
  • Weijia Cheng (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
  • Robin Whittleton (pfr)
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