The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

Optimistic and wise, these love poems convey a mystical certainty of the arrival of love, while dramatizing the seek for a soul mate that takes place in everyday life, the imagination, and dreams. Inviting reflection on the which means of love and eloquently rendering the chain of moments that the experience of love leads us through, this famous inspirational poet channels identical proverbial simplicity and lyrical beauty that created his poem "The Prophet" instantly and internationally loved.

Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese emigrant to America, wrote in Arabic and was influenced by the culture, philosophy, and spiritualism of the Maronite Christian faith. His books are translated into quite 20 languages. Lassaâd Metoui is Tunisian by birth and a renowned Arabic illustrator. Malek Chebel is an internationally recognized scholar of Islam and therefore the author of Symbols of Islam.