An Investigation on The Literature of Mahjar

One of the important schools of modern Arabic literature is the Mahjar/Immigration Literature School. Mahjar Literature is Arabic literature created by the Arabs who migrated from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan to America and other foreign states in the 19th century. Arabic intellectuals, who migrated from different countries for various reasons and settled in different parts of America, especially New York, created literary secrets such as al-Rabitah al-Qalamiyyah, al-Fayhaf, Kawkabu Emrīka, al-Asr, al-Ayyam ..., and they prepared the ground for literature named Mahjar Arab Literature. The Arab intelligentsia, which had to emigrate from East to West at the beginning of the 19th century, was soon influenced by Western culture and influenced by Western thinkers. This influence was mostly on the fields of music, painting, literature, architecture, sculpture and theater of fine arts. As a result of this cultural influence, the so-called “Mahjar literature” has led to the formation of the school and influenced modern Arabic literature in many ways. Mahjar’s writers, who adopted a protest style in prose and poetry in particular, confronted the records that existed in these two areas and formed their works according to the new rules and rules created by them. Mahjar literature has many representatives. Each of these representatives is at the top of their field and the two of them are named after them. One of them is the famous poet and philosopher Jubran Khalil Jubran, who died in 1931 in America. The other one was Mikhail Nuaymah, who died in 1988 in Beirut. The two literary figures in question are of great importance in the formation of the Mahjar literature school.

Keywords

Mahjar Literature, al-Rabitah al-Qalamiyyah, Jubran Khalil Jubran, Mikhail Nuaymah, Amin al-Rayhani