Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders

<p>A comprehensive illustrated biography of <b>Kahlil Gibran</b>, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction <i>The Prophet</i>. <br><br>Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist, poet, writer and polymath who emigrated to America as a young man in the 1890s, where he became <b>a successful artist and prose poet</b>. His book <i>The Prophet</i> (1923), a series of twenty-six philosophical essays written in poetic English prose became a <b>world-wide bestseller</b> after a sluggish start, selling <b>40 million copies</b>, and becoming a particular favourite of the 1960s counterculture. <br><br>As a writer, Gibran encouraged a renaissance in Arab literature; as an artist he painted hundreds of canvases including portraits of artistic celebrities. Raised a Maronite Catholic, his spirituality thought <b>embraces</b> elements of other traditions including Sufi mysticism and the Baha''i faith.</p>