title: The Prophet
author:  Kahlil Gibran 
description: Kahlil Gibran was among the most important Arabic language authors of the early twentieth century. Born in 1883 in Lebanon, he spent the last twenty years of his life (to 1931) in the United States. He is the author of numerous volumes, the most famous of which is THE PROHPET, translated into over twenty languages.
zlib_text: KAHLIL GIBRJN
  The Nature ofLove
  author ofTHE PROPHET
  a study by
  Andrew Dib Sherfan
  
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  KAHLIL GIBRJN
  The Nature ofLove
  Kahlil Gibran has become one of the
  most widely read authors of modern times.
  Much of
  his popularity
  derives from
  his
  philosophy of love and reconciliation,
  which
  is
  so gracefully expressed
  in such
  books as The Prophet, The Procession,
  Secrets of the Heart, Spirits Rebellious, and
  Tears and Laughter.
  In the present book Mr. Sherfan exam-
  ines Gibran's philosophy of love and
  de-
  lineates the ways in which
  it contributed to
  the molding of Gibran's literary point of
  view and of his
  life
  style. He also shows
  how
  this philosophy
  is a valid and mean-
  ingful one
  for man and why
  it awakens
  the positive response
  it does in millions of
  readers.
  Andrew Dib Sherfan is Lebanese, as was
  Gibran. He has studied
  in
  Beirut, Rome,
  Jerusalem and London,
  and
  is
  presently
  teaching in Manila. He attended the Gibran
  International Festival
  at Beirut in May,
  1970, as a representative of the P