KAHLIL GIBRAN
THE NATURE OF LOVE
A New Study by
Andrew Dib Sherfan
- NY: Philosophical Library/Book Sales Inc.
©1971.
- Reprint.
- 8¼ x
5½
inches (21 x 14 cm).
- 115 pages. Complete.
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- Original publishers tan binding with
black
lettering on spine. Includes pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated.
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- Hardcover in good condition with some spotting to the top
fore edge. The dust jacket shows some edgewear,
spotting, sunning, soiling, but is not price-clipped. The pages are clean with no markings, and the binding is strong.
An excellent reading copy.
Khalil Gibran (born Gibran
Khalil Gibran bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also
known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born
in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Syria), as a
young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art
and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The
Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early
example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical
reception, and became extremely popular in 1960s counterculture.
Gibran held his first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Day’s
studio. During this exhibition, Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, a respected
headmistress ten years his senior. The two formed an important friendship that
lasted the rest of Gibran’s life. Though publicly discreet, their correspondence
reveals an exalted intimacy. Haskell influenced not only Gibran’s personal life,
but also his career. In 1908, Gibran went to study art with Auguste Rodin in
Paris for two years. While there he met his art study partner and lifelong
friend Youssef Howayek. He later studied art in Boston.
Juliet Thompson, one of Gibran's acquaintances, reported several anecdotes of
Gibran. She recalls Gibran met `Abdu'l-Bahá, the leader of the Bahá’í Faith at
the time of his visit to the United States, circa 1911-1912. Barbara Young, in
“This Man from Lebanon: A Study of Khalil Gibran”, records Gibran was unable to
sleep the night before meeting `Abdu’l-Bahá who sat for a pair of portraits.
Thompson reports Gibran saying that all the way through writing of “Jesus, The
Son of Man”, he thought of `Abdu’l-Bahá. Years later, after the death of `Abdu’l-Bahá,
there was a viewing of the movie recording of `Abdu’l-Bahá - Gibran rose to talk
and in tears, proclaimed an exalted station of `Abdu’l-Bahá and left the event
weeping.
While most of Gibran's early writings were in Arabic, most of his work published
after 1918 was in English. His first book for the publishing company Alfred
Knopf, in 1918, was The Madman, a slim volume of aphorisms and parables written
in biblical cadence somewhere between poetry and prose. Gibran also took part in
the New York Pen League, also known as the "immigrant poets" (al-mahjar),
alongside important Lebanese-American authors such as Ameen Rihani, Elia Abu
Madi and Mikhail Naimy, a close friend and distinguished master of Arabic
literature, whose descendants Gibran declared to be his own children, and whose
nephew, Samir, is a godson of Gibran's.
Much of Gibran's writings deal with Christianity, especially on the topic of
spiritual love. His poetry is notable for its use of formal language, as well as
insights on topics of life using spiritual terms. Gibran's best-known work is
The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. The book became
especially popular during the 1960s with the American counterculture and New Age
movements. Since it was first published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out
of print. Having been translated into more than twenty languages, it was one of
the bestselling books of the twentieth century in the United States.
One of his most notable lines of poetry in the English-speaking world is from
"Sand and Foam" (1926), which reads : “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I
say it so that the other half may reach you”. This line was used by John Lennon
and placed, though in a slightly altered form, into the song Julia from The
Beatles' 1968 album The Beatles (a.k.a. "The White Album")..
-From Wikipedia
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