NOTES TO PAGES 175-188 277155 Misbah wa Sarir; Muhawala in Shir, pp. 99,101. The former appears as Hirman in
Min Shfr, p. 222.
156 Shabah al-Mddi in Shfr. p. 111.
157 'InadinMukhtarafp.8;NasrinMm'Umar,p. 193
158 Al-Rukud in Shfr, p. 138.
159 Imra'a wa TimthalinMin'Vmar. p. 17.
160 Dahhan, Al-Shfr, pp. 242-43.
161 JflM Dart, Sfarfta/, iam/w in S/ii'r, pp. 127,160,179.
162 Min Shfr 'UmarAbuRisha. pp. 112,231.
163 Hadlthfi'l Khandaq: Ba'd al-Nakba in Mukhtarat, pp. 110,268.
164 Dhvan 'UmarAbu Msha, p. 21.
165 'Am Jadidia Mukhtarat. p. 107.
166 NasrinMin'Umar,p. 193. Cf.Sto'r,p. 207;Min'Umar,pp. 109,172.
CHAPTER 5: THE EMIGRANT POETS
1 See e.g. Ihsan 'Abbas and Muhammad Yusuf Najm in Al-Shi'r al-'Arablfi'l Mahjar
(Beirut, 1957). This, however, is an excellent and thoughtful book to which the
reader is advised to refer for a more detailed study than it has been possible to
attempt here.
2 Ibid..p. 19.
3 Muhammad 'Abdul Ghani Hasan, Al-Shfr al-'Arabifi'l Mahjar. 2nd edn., (Cairo,
(1958), p. 24.
4 Khalil S. Hawi, Khalil Gibran. His Background, Character and Works (Beirut, 1972),
p. 281. Much has been written on the theme of nostalgia and homesickness in
Mahjar poetry. See e.g. Farid Jiha, Al-Haninfi Shfr al-Mahjar (Aleppo, n.d.) and
Al-'UrubaJi Shfr al-Mahjar (Beirut, 1966); Y/adi'Dib, Al-Shfr al-'Arabifi'l Mahjar
al-Amrlki (Beirut, 1955), pp. 78ff.; Muhammad Mustafa Hiddai&,Al-TajdidfiShfr
al-Mahjar (Cairo, 1957), pp. 95ff; 'Isa al-Na'uri, Adab al-Mahjar (Cairo, 1959), pp.
73ff., and Uns Dawud, Al-Tajdidfi Shfr al-Mahjar (Cairo, 1967), pp. 171 ft".
5 See M. 'A. Hasan, Al-Shfr, pp. 5 Iff.; Wad? Dib, Al-Shfr., pp. i 58-9 and Nadira
Jamil Sarraj, Shu'ara' al-Rabita al-Qalamiyya (Cairo, 1957), pp. 69ff.
6 Jibran Khali] Jibraa Al-Majmu'a al-Kamila li Mu'allafat Jibran Khalil Jibran (Beirut,
1959), pp. 278, 307.
7 Mikha'ilNu'aima,^-GWrifl/(Beirut, 1960), p. 126.
8 Mikha'fl Nu'aima,JibranKhalilJibran, Hayatuh,Mautuh,Adabuh, Fannuh (Beirut,
1960), p. 126.
9 Hawi,KhaKI Gibran p. 283.
10 Al-Mawakib: see Jibran, Al-majmu'a, pp. 343ff.
11 The Arabic title is Talasim.
12 Taha Husain, Hadith al-Arba'a', vol. ra (Cairo, 1957), pp. 200ff. For a passionate
defence of Mahjar poets against this charge, however, see Jurj Saidah, Adabuna wa
Udaba'unifflMahajir al-Amrikiyya (Beirut, 1957), pp. 575ff.
13 In Arabic Hams al-Jufun.
14 MIkha'il Nu'aima, Al-Ghirbal, pp. 84ff.
15 Mikha'fl Nu'aima, Hams al-Jufun, 4th edn. (Beirut, 1962), p. 14.
16 Muhammad Mandur, Fi'lMizan al-Jadid, 2nd edn. (Cairo, n.d.), p. 50.
17 Mikha'fl Nu'aima, 5a*'Mn,HiJfeayar'i;mr, vol. i (Beirut, 1959), p. 181.
18 Nu'aima, Hams, pp. 64, 96. The Arabic titles are al-Khair wa'l Shan, al-'lrak.
19 Nu'aima, Sab'un, vol. n (Beirut, 1960), p. 167.
20 Nu'aima, Hams, pp. 47, 10, 26,40, 3 5, 52, 5 5. The titles are Auraq al Kharif, al-Nahr
al-Mutajammid. Min Sifr al-Zaman, Soda al-Ajras, Ibtihalat, al-Ta'ih, an&Afaqa'l Qalb